�#SomeoneTellCNN, Gerara here� � Kenyans on Twitter

| Thursday July 23, 2015 15:23

 

“President Barack Obama is not just heading to his father's homeland, but to a hotbed of terror,” the CNN report read, raising concerns about al-Qaeda affiliated terror group al-Shabaab. 

The Kenyan are using the hashtag #SomeoneTellCNN to voice their anger on the “bias reporting” by CNN. The hastag #SomeoneTellCNN reached number one on worldwide trends on Twitter on Thursday midday. 

As the criticism continued on Twitter today, CNN changed the headline to refer only to unspecified “security concerns”, with an editor’s note below reading: “The headline and lead of this article has been recast to indicate the terror threat is a regional one.” 

#SomeoneTellCNN first surfaced in March 2012, when CNN’s segment on a bus station bombing sparked anger for a banner reading “Violence in Kenya”. 

Almost exactly a year later, the trend resurfaced to lampoon a report called “Kenyans Armed and Ready to Vote” militias allegedly preparing for conflict ahead of elections.