I made a video debunking the Nick Shirley Minnesota fraud fid in under 10 minutes

(Self-promoting with staff permission, because I haven't seen others posting some of the things I've found.)

YouTuber Nick Shirley has "gone viral" (thanks in part to his sponsor, a company that literally helps channels go viral) with a video "exposing" Somali-run fraud in Minnesota.

In said video, Nick goes to various child care centers, finds them "empty", and thus proclaims them to be fake fronts for fraud. However, there are several instances if manipulation and outright lying in his video... as well as claims that are simply never backed up with evidence.

In order to show how deceptive Nick's video is, I challenged myself to debunk as much of it as I could in under 10 minutes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKx_GDdh4sM

Since my posting, other information has come out as well - apparently he blurred out the hours of operation on one of the businesses, and when someone went to the location and photographed the notice, it was revealed Nick had gone there before the building was open and then censored out the opening time on the door. Unfortunately for Nick, people discovered what time of day he went by looking at his phone in different shots.

My issue with all of this is not that I think there's no fraud - it's that if there IS fraud, Nick is obscuring it and ruining chances at investigation with his sloppy and dishonest antics. Provably lying to the world while putting people's faces and locations on camera and calling them federal criminals... not my cup of tea, I guess.