Zayn Malik, the One Direction member, was not arrested by the NSA.
A Twitter user appeared to upload a Photoshopped screenshot of the Guardian that said “Zayn Arrested by NSA,” which contains grammatical and capitalization errors. “Rumors have it is that he has hacked into an NSA website for his own personal game,” it reads in part, adding he could get “5-10 years in an underground facility.”
There was a term trending on Twitter, “#ZaynArrestedByNSA,” and it appears to be making fun of One Direction fans’ backlash against the Daily Show.
The Daily Show made fun of One Direction, lumping them in with terrorist groups like ISIS and al-Qaeda.
However, some fans took this the wrong way and angrily tweeted responses to the show.
To counter that, some Twitter users apparently started the NSA hoax.
There’s no shred of truth to Malik getting arrested by the NSA.
And for his part, Malik has not responded to the hoax or to the Daily Show skit on his Twitter account.
“Zaynarrestedbynsa Could you be more stupid? I really hate people now a days,” wrote one user on Twitter.
Added another: “This is a great day for America! Terrorism will not be tolerated! USA! USA! USA! #ZaynArrestedByNSA.”
Said one, “People start trends like #ZaynArrestedByNSA but when we defend him they don’t like it and get personal! #EMABiggestFans1D.”
Legit #ZaynArrestedbyNSA pic.twitter.com/9k8544dmnh
— Aaron (@TheRealSMA) September 26, 2014
