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.
Erasing the Houthis' foundational call of "Death to America, Death to Israel, Curse on the Jews," Reuters recasts the designated terror group as a movement representing a persecuted minority fighting for its (unspecified) interests.
Reuters' fawning feature starring the mother of a convicted Palestinian prisoner buries the brutal crime of convicted murderer Diaa El Agha and falsely identifies his civilian victim as a Mossad spy agency officer.
CAMERA again prompts a Reuters correction after the wire service erased the Oct. 7 massacre, inventing that the Israel-Hamas war started in the Gaza Strip. In fact, it began with Hamas' devastating invasion of southern Israel, unleashing an orgy of murder, kidnapping, rape, mutilations and torture.
For at least the fourth time in recent years, CAMERA prompts correction at Reuters after the influential wire service cited Tel Aviv as shorthand for Israel.
UPDATE: CAMERA prompts correction after Reuters' James Mackenzie and Ali Sawafta significantly understate the number of Israeli and foreigners killed in Palestinian and Hezbollah attacks.
CAMERA prompts correction of an egregious bogus quote at Reuters echoing Hamas' false claim that Itamar Ben-Gvir announced plans for a Temple Mount synagogue. But the news agency has yet to correct the inflammatory falsehood that the far-right Israeli minister called for Jewish prayer in the Al-Aqsa mosque.
In response to communication from CAMERA's Jerusalem office, Reuters deletes posts on X (formerly Twitter) and Facebook which erroneously used Tel Aviv as a metonyn for Israel.
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.
Reuters "adds context" about Hamas' massive Oct. 7 attacks to a Facebook post which cites "the war Israel launched against Hamas." While the inclusion of Hamas' Oct. 7 atrocities is certainly a significant improvement, it should be noted that Israel didn’t “launch” a war, Hamas did.
