He was having a beer at a bar called the Backdoor when “someone texted me that Conway said something insane,” Mr. Sonka told me. In 2011, the federal authorities arrested two Iraqi refugees who were plotting to send money and weapons to Al Qaeda in Iraq from their new homes in Bowling Green. So at 9:34 p.m. on Thursday, Mr. Sonka wrote on Twitter: “@KellyannePolls says that 2 Iraqi refugees ‘were the masterminds behind the Bowling Green massacre.’ (There was no such massacre. “That tweet got 2.4 million impressions,” Mr. Sonka said. Ditto for the blowback over the whole Bowling Green yarn.

Source: New York Times February 06, 2017 01:34 UTC