Reports that Sinaloa cartel boss Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman threatened ISIS with retaliation if it continued to destroy his drug shipments to the Middle East, appear to be nothing more than a work of fiction.

Blogger Steve Charnock told Daily Mail Online that he published the story and it was untrue.

Charnock works for a website called Thug Life Videos that features a mix of real news and satirical stories.

“It was satire, faux news,” he told Daily Mail Online. “It got a few shares on Facebook initially, but now it is the top story on some websites.”

The story was picked up by numerous media outlets after being featured on cartelblog.com and quoted an e-mail El Chapo reportedly wrote ISIS which was leaked to a Mexican blogger with ties to the cartel.

El Chapo has been in hiding since escaping a Mexican jail earlier this year.