Is It ‘Too Soon’ for ISIS Jokes?: Student Paper Pulls Satirical Post on ISIS Campus Invasion

By: Dan Reimold | College Media Matters

The Daily Nexus at the University of California, Santa Barbara, has retracted and apologized for a satirical blog post describing a faux campus invasion by the militant group ISIS. With its lack of a prominent satire label upfront, some readers apparently believed the student newspaper article may have been real.

Accessible now solely via Google Cache, the post appeared early Tuesday morning on the Daily Nexus edgy humor blog Nexustentialism. It recounts a “Jihadi assault” on a UCSB dorm, only identifying itself as “a fictitious, satirical column” in a brief disclaimer following the last sentence.