The New York Times says there were significant falsehoods at the centre of its blockbuster ISIS podcast Caliphate Jacob Shamsian Rukmini Callimachi speaks onstage at The Daily Live on Stage during SXSW at Austin Convention Centre on March 10, 2018 in Austin, Texas. After a monthslong internal investigation, The New York Times said there were serious falsehoods at the centre of its blockbuster Caliphate podcast hosted by Rukmini Callimachi, one of its star reporters. The podcast s main figure, Shehroze Chaudhry, said he joined ISIS in Syria, killed two people and participated in other terrorist activities, and then returned to his home in Canada.