Accuracy and accountability are among the most important tenets of journalism. In combination, they mean media organizations are expected to publish or broadcast forthright corrections after sharing inaccurate information. The following corrections are among the many prompted by CAMERA’s communication with reporters and editors.
More than a year and a half after multiple foreign intelligence sources ruled out an Israeli airstrike as responsible for the deadly Al-Ahli hospital blast, pointing instead to an errant Palestinian rocket, some media outlets regress into the murky fog of war mode.
CAMERA's Israel office has prompted Agence France Presse corrections in both English and French after the news agency grossly inflated Hamas' own claim about the death toll in the Gaza Strip from 436 to 970.
CAMERA prompts an AFP correction after the wire service misreported that Netanyahu has opposed "any Palestinian governance in the Gaza Strip." In fact, the Israeli Prime Minister has called for "civilian administration run by Palestinians who do not seek to destroy Israel."
CAMERA prompts correction of an Agence France Presse article which incorrectly identified Rep. Rashida Tlaib as “the first Palestinian-American in Congress." While she is the first Palestinian-American woman in Congress, several Palestinian-American men served preceded her.
UPDATE: CAMERA prompts corrections of AFP and Getty photograph captions which whitewashed a New York City demonstrator waving a Hamas flag and sporting a Hamas headband as a "[p]ro-Palestinian" demonstrator. The corrected captions make his Hamas affiliation clear.
CAMERA prompts AFP to amend after reporting the "whole [Eurovision] contest has been clouded by the participation of Israel." It's not Israel which clouded Eurovision. It's the haters of Israel who did so.
CAMERA prompts correction of an English-language AFP article which falsely reported that the Abraham Accords permitted Israeli annexation of West Bank land. In fact, the accords achieved normalization between Israel and Arab states and removed annexation from the agenda.
CAMERA prompts correction of an English-language AFP article which erroneously reported that all of the Palestinian refugees from 1948 were forcibly displaced from their homes. In fact, the vast majority fled, often at the urging of their own leaders.
AFP improves coverage after initially demoting terror commanders killed alongside Salah Al-Arouri to "bodyguards" and omitting the Hamas deputy's second claim to infamy: founding the terror organization's military wing.
While Agence France Presse neglects to correct an article which underreported that Hamas captured "dozens" of hostages, subsequent AFP articles accurately cite 240 hostages. VOA, unlike AFP, commendably corrects.
