// Terrorism analyst Paul Cruickshank suggests in a Twitter thread Monday that ISIS’s claims seem to be getting less reliable. The group claimed credit for a June attack that killed 37 people at a casino in Manila, Philippines, which appears to have actually been a botched robbery by an indebted gambler. ISIS also claimed, after a British Airways flight at Charles de Gaulle Airport was evacuated last month, that it had planted bombs there. There were no bombs, and the evacuation was due to an unrelated incident. //
There has been a proliferation of alt right fake news sites that will print any old rubbish because they know their right wing nutter audience will believe it.
In the past ISIS knew their claims of attacks had to look credible, or at least plausible, when they knew they were dealing with proper news organisations, they know the level of proof, or the standard of real scrutiny has dropped, and so they have started to make false claims.
ISIS have not given a scrap of evidence that Paddock was one of theirs. If they had any evidence, they would share it. They haven't so in all probability, the claim is not true. But that doesn't really matter when FrontPageMag and Khandro are prepared to publicise the claim anyway, doing the terrorists' job for them.