CAMERA's Christmas correction at the Associated Press reaches well over 180 media outlets in the United States and beyond. While Pope Leo referred to "Palestine," the news agency amended the article to more accurately refer to "the Palestinian territories."
Lesson learned? A CAMERA-prompted AP correction on "Palestine" terminology appearing in an education story reaches more than 30 secondary media outlets.
CNN, ABC News, NBC News, and The Guardian treated Saleh al-Jafarawi, "Mr. Fafo," as a legitimate journalist. If al-Jafarawi is a "journalist" in the same way their reporters are, then why should the public trust anything these outlets report?
ABC failed to include in its reporting significant problems with the process used by the International Association of Genocide Scholars. Nor does the network appear to have covered the detailed BESA Center report debunking the genocide libel.
When a senior UN official told the BBC that thousands of babies would die in two days, the claim quickly spread across the global media — which would be understandable, if it weren’t abjectly false.
UPDATE: CAMERA prompts correction at ABC after the network reported as fact a disputed allegation that Israel hit a U.N. facility in Deir Al-Balah, killing a U.N. worker. The amended article acknowledges Israel's denial that it operated in that area.
When bad-faith actors use social media as an accelerant for anti-Israel disinformation, the news media too often fans the flames instead of stopping the spread.
CAMERA prompts correction of an AP article which had erased the deadly crime of released Palestinian prisoner Imad Abu Aliya. Nearly 50 secondary media outlets also corrected, clarifying that the terrorist was convicted for intentional manslaughter and incitement, not simply affiliation with Hamas.
After CAMERA prompts a significant correction of AP's absurd assertion that "[i]nternational law gives Palestinian refugees and their descendants the right to return to their homes," several dozens secondary media outlets correct.
