Cuckoo Ceuta Conspiracy: From Fringe Extremists to Spain’s Mainstream El Periodico...

A conspiracy theory alleging that Israel and the United States orchestrated the mass entry of Moroccans into the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla first circulated among fringe online commentators including Hasan Piker and Owen Jones.

It later appeared in the mainstream Spanish outlet El Periódico, according to a CAMERA report tracking the spread of the claim.