CNN thought they spotted an ISIS flag at a pride parade, but it was actually covered in sex toys

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CNN had a pretty disturbing dispatch from London's LGBT pride festivities Saturday, or at least, they thought they did. International assignment editor Lucy Pawle spotted what she thought was the ISIS flag at a gay pride march when she was leaving work.

"If you look at the flag closely, it’s clearly not Arabic," she said. "In fact, it looks like it could be gobbledygook."

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Julie Kliegman

Julie Kliegman is a freelance writer based in New York. Her work has appeared in BuzzFeed, Vox, Mental Floss, Paste, the Tampa Bay Times and PolitiFact. Her cats can do somersaults.