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Below the catching headline graphic, the station points out this is a fact check, while stating that al-Baghdadi was the founder of Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL).
It wasn't long, however, until CNN's "fact check" was trumped by others who noted that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was actually the founder of the terrorist group, while Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is its leader.
The main issue many had with the "factcheck" was not that it was incorrect, but that this practice has been employed on a number of occasions with respect to statements made by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, but not for Democratic contestant Hillary Clinton.
Even Fox News has called out its rival for its partisan election coverage.
Trump himself took to Twitter to address the controversy, dismissing his comments as "sarcasm".
CNN used a similar graphic in June to debunk comments Trump made related to whether Japan should have access to nuclear weapons. "Trump: I never said Japan should have nukes (he did)," the chryon read.
Last week, after Trump's son Eric claimed that his father had apologized to the family of a fallen soldier for comments he made about their son, CNN headlined the report, "Trump's son: Father apologized to Khans (He hasn't)."
Comment: In an ideal world, all politicians would be "fact checked" all the time. However, they'd first need to get their facts straight. CNN fails and exposes itself as a partisan propaganda outlet. And by the way, a proper fact check of Trump's comment would run something like this: "While technically Zarqawi founded ISIS, he couldn't have done so without the illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq under President Bush, which continued under Obama, and the U.S.'s continuing policy of creating, funding and arming radical jihadi movements in the Middle East and elsewhere. If Obama had fixed the mistakes of the previous administration, rather than continuing them and actually making them worse, there would be no ISIS. So while he technically did not found ISIS, for all intents and purposes, he is responsible, along with countless others, Hillary Clinton included."