HonestReporting works tirelessly to monitor the media and ensure factual errors get corrected.
Here are our top corrections for August 2023, including BBC News, ABC News Australia, CBS News, UPI, SABC News & The New York Times:
The New York Times Mistakes the Western Wall for the Holiest Site in Judaism
https://twitter.com/HonestReporting/status/1686989044440276992
BBC News Headline Misleads on Palestinian Terrorists Killed by Israel
https://twitter.com/HonestReporting/status/1688832018274979840
BBC News Mislabels Israeli Terror Victims
https://twitter.com/HonestReporting/status/1693623250935259557
ABC News Australia Misinforms on Settlement Homes
https://twitter.com/HonestReporting/status/1689559095085264899
The Infographics Show Uses a Palestinian Flag To Represent Israel
We contacted @TheInfoShow to ask why they used a Palestinian flag to represent Israelis. We're glad to say they responded directly to HonestReporting, thanking us for flagging the error.https://t.co/BEfY9WmJKW
— HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) August 23, 2023
ABC News Australia Headline Fails To Identify Perpetrator & Victim in Palestinian Terror Attack
A Palestinian terrorist shoots dead Israeli security guard Chen Amir in Tel Aviv before being neutralized and this is the appalling headline Australian @abcnews came up with.
And hours later, it still hasn't even been updated with the news that Amir died.https://t.co/ImcRpmI2t2 pic.twitter.com/6XudvZ464M
— HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) August 6, 2023
[sc name=”graybox” ][/sc] ABC News Australia Issues Mea Culpa Over Appalling Tel Aviv Terror Attack Piece
BBC News Falsely Claims Muammar Gaddafi Expelled Thousands of Jews
https://twitter.com/HonestReporting/status/1696121973745594486
CBS News & UPI Mislabel Israeli Terror Victims
https://twitter.com/HonestReporting/status/1701243025089790358
It's taken far too long but @UPI has finally responded to our multiple requests by correcting the caption below.
The two murdered Israeli "settlers" were nothing of the sort – they were residents of the southern Israeli city of Ashdod.https://t.co/HiFssSoDYt https://t.co/nodL5K9dMw pic.twitter.com/FNA1nDY4AY— HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) September 11, 2023
SABC News Misquotes UN Diplomat on Palestinian Terrorism
https://twitter.com/HonestReporting/status/1701977786699632814
IOL Misidentifies Tel Aviv as Israel’s Capital
Thank you @LanceTheWitten for getting back to us and correcting the error. We are glad to see that accuracy does indeed matter to @IOL.
Maccabi Tel Aviv plays in the city where its name suggests and not in Israel's capital, Jerusalem. https://t.co/3TzdZllX3w
— HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) September 14, 2023
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