Earlier today, we flagged a factual error in a May 30th Daily Mail article on the recent rocket attacks from Gaza – an inaccurate claim we noted in a tweet to the journalist, Cheyenne Roundtree.
.@cheyenneisround Overall your @MailOnline report on Gaza rocket fire is fair. However, there's 1 error. You claim (snapshot below) there was no claim of responsibility by terrorists in Gaza. But hours before your report, Hamas & IJ claimed responsibility https://t.co/d9pZq8tPKX pic.twitter.com/DQbgfiPMV7
— CAMERA UK (formerly UK Media Watch and BBC Watch) (@CAMERAorgUK) May 30, 2018
As we noted in a subsequent email to editors, multiple news sites had reported the claim of responsibility by Hamas and Islamic Jihad several hours before the Daily Mail article was published.
Our complaint was quickly upheld and the sentence corrected.
Here’s the new language:
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