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.
For the second time since August, CAMERA prompts an AP correction after the wire service falsely reported that Hamas' Ministry of Health most Gaza fatalities are women and children. The English and Spanish corrections appeared in more than 100 media outlets.
Writing in JNS, CAMERA's Tamar Sternthal examines the implications of the fact that AP has twice corrected in the last two months after falsely reporting that the Hamas-run Ministry of Health in Gaza has found most fatalities are women and children.
CAMERA prompts an Associated Press correction of the false claim that Hamas' Ministry of Health in Gaza "says women and children make up most of the dead." In fact, even the Hamas ministry says less than half are women and children. Scores of news outlets republish AP's correction.
"Catholic convent is bulldozed" declares an incendiary AP headline which treats as fact a disputed rumor about Israeli actions in Lebanon. The religious site is still reportedly standing and intact, but AP's reputation as the "world's most trustworthy news organization" is reduced to rubble.
Initially, AP failed to cover the death of Nesya Karadi, 11, who succumbed to fatal wounds incurred Passover eve in an Iranian cluster bomb missile attack on her Bnei Brak home. She was Israel's latest fatality, all of them civilians, from Iranian missiles during the spring 2026 war. AP heeded CAMERA's call to cover the girl's story, which then appeared in more than 150 secondary media outlets.
UPDATED: CAMERA prompts an AP correction, republished in dozens of secondary media outlets, after the news agency cited "Washington and Tel Aviv," wrongly identifying Israel's capital.
CAMERA prompts correction of an Associated Press article which wrongly stated that the Iranian-backed Houthis of Yemen "sat out" the June 2025 war between Iran and Israel. In fact, the terror organization targeted Israel with ballistic missile attacks.
CAMERA prompts a correction of an AP article which cherry-picked a gloomy, disputed and dated figure about the Gaza Strip's food security situation. The news agency's clarification that the IPC figure is older than originally reported reached over 100 news sites across the U.S. and beyond.
CAMERA prompts correction at The Los Angeles Times after the paper briefly resurrected Hamas spokesman Abu Obeida from the dead. A September speech following his August death would have been a truly unprecedented feat. But the truth is more mundane.
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."
