Children sleep during nap time at Minnesota Child Care in Minneapolis, one of the centers featured in a recent viral video. | Renee Jones Schneider/Star Tribune/Getty Images
The video was designed to grab attention.
Posted the day after Christmas, it shows right-wing YouTuber Nick Shirley exposing what he says are a series of fraudulent day care centers in Minnesota. He rings doorbells, pulls on doors, and sometimes claims to be a parent hoping to register his child, “Little Joey.” When he’s not admitted, he claims the centers are fake, with no children inside. All the while, a ticker...
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