Fact Check: Fake 'ICE Agents Quitting In Droves' Headline NOT Published By Sky News -- Satirical Meme

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  • by: Maarten Schenk
Fact Check: Fake 'ICE Agents Quitting In Droves' Headline NOT Published By Sky News -- Satirical Meme Fake Headline

Did Sky News publish a headline that read "Ice agents quitting in droves due to low morale, doxxing fears"? No, that's not true: The headline did not appear on the website of Sky News at the time of writing. It appears to have originated as a meme from the "South Dakota Department of Propaganda", a website with a satire disclaimer.

A screenshot with the headline appeared in a post (archived here) published by the website "South Dakota Department of Propaganda" on July 8, 2025 titled "ICE Agents Quit Over Doxxing Fears - South Dakota Department of Propaganda" which self-described the image as:

Sky News graphic with the channel logo and a red news label. Headline reads Ice Agents quitting in droves due to low morale, doxxing fears dated July 2 2025.

This is what the image looked like:

(Image Source: "South Dakota Department of Propaganda" satire website)

The website "South Dakota Department of Propaganda" has an about page (archived here) that says:

Or maybe the South Dakota Department of Propaganda is actually a satirical digital performance art experiment created by a shit-posting meme lord in December of 2019 (Maybe the project was a completely different beast until COVID happened and the world went mad with us). Maybe it mixes memes, news stories (real and fake), random deep fake/AI images, and traditional art forms to create a digital social commentary on American online life in the 21st century. Maybe it explicitly targets instances of hypocrisy and corruption nationally, especially at the South Dakota state level. Nah, it's probably the conspiracy cult thing.

A search of the website of sky.com through a Google search (archived here) did not reveal any results with the phrase "Ice agents quitting in droves". Neither did a search of Google News (archived here).

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  Maarten Schenk

Maarten Schenk is the co-founder and COO/CTO of Lead Stories and an expert on fake news and hoax websites. He likes to go beyond just debunking trending fake news stories and is endlessly fascinated by the dazzling variety of psychological and technical tricks used by the people and networks who intentionally spread made-up things on the internet.

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