A widely shared Milo Yiannopoulos post claiming his house was destroyed by Hurricane Irma is being called untrue.
The alt-right troll, who this year famously lost a book deal and a job at conservative opinion website Breitbart after defending statutory rape, had been mocking disaster victims before making the claim.
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Yiannopoulos posted a photo online of the hurricane lashing Miami with the caption: "My house is gone".
Previously, the 32-year-old provocateur had celebrated Hurricane Irma "devastating" a property owned by Sir Richard Branson and joked about it leaving Haiti "in ruins".
The Miami Herald investigated the photo used in Yiannopoulos' post and reports it isn't in the Brickell neighbourhood, as claimed in the post, but rather Edgewater - and is owned by Gerard Duhart, rather than Yiannopoulos.
It's not clear if the post was yet another 'joke' by Yiannopoulos about Hurricane Irma, but he is infamous for propagating fake news stories which share his misogynistic, anti-Islam and transphobic views.
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