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Media Corrections

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.

April 30, 2024

CNN Corrects: ICJ Did Not Find "Plausible Genocide" in Gaza

When the International Court of Justice issued an order on January 26 in the “genocide” case between South Africa and Israel, it soon became common knowledge that the ICJ had found it “plausible” that Israel was committing “genocide.” This common knowledge, however, was in fact a myth.

August 31, 2022

MSNBC’s Ayman Moyheldin Corrects: Misfired Islamic Jihad Rockets Killed Many Gazans

After falsely reporting that Israeli airstrikes were responsible for all reported 49 casualties in Gaza earlier this month, MSNBC's Ayman Mohyeldin acknowledges: "[W]e should have also noted AP reported evidence that 14 of those were killed by errant rockets fired from the Palestinian side."

May 3, 2022

CAMERA Prompts MSNBC Correction Regarding Israel's Condemnation of Russia

This is the second time in recent days that an MSNBC host has claimed Israel has not adequately supported the United States position on the issue of Ukraine.

April 27, 2021

MSNBC’s Mehdi Hasan Fails to Challenge Rep. Ro Khanna’s Libel on Burning of Palestinian Villages

April 27 UPDATE: Months after MSNBC declined to immediately make clear that Israel does not burn Palestinian villages, Rep. Ro Khanna appeared on Mehdi Hasan's show and commendably stated: "I vehemently correct that." The incorrigible Hasan took the opportunity to further smear Israel.

April 12, 2021

MSNBC’s Mehdi Hasan Tweets Libel That Israeli Sniper Targeted Palestinian Boy

Apparently emboldened by MSNBC's failure to broadcast a clarification debunking the grotesque falsehood that Israel is burning down Palestinian villages, host Mehdi Hasan moves on to a new libel: an Israeli sniper targeted a Palestinian child.

October 4, 2020

MSNBC Corrects on Settlements, Oslo Accords

CAMERA prompts corrections at MSNBC's "Morning Joe" after Keir Simmons erroneously reported "Over the past two decades over 600,000 Jewish settlers have built communities in parts of east Jerusalem and the West Bank, land promised to the Palestinians for a future state."

November 25, 2015

Update: MSNBC Corrects Mistaken Use of a False Historical Map of Palestine

MSNBC used a series of hoax chronological maps showing an Arab "Palestine" in 1946. It corrected the error on the air, commendably.