The Haitian Times covered the false claims targeting Springfield. Now it’s also facing attacks | CNN Business

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Macollvie Neel, editor of the Haitian Times, was ready to start her workday from home on Monday when her doorbell rang. What she thought might be a delivery turned out to be more than a half-dozen police officers.

“I looked and there were police cruisers outside my house,” Neel recalled Tuesday in an interview with CNN.

When she opened the door, Neel said officers explained that “someone had emailed an [organization] saying they had killed their wife for being racist toward Haitians at my address.”

The hoax report that sent officers rushing to her home, known

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