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.
Reuters corrects after wrongly reporting that Rafah was destroyed and evacuated after the October ceasefire. Still in place is misleading "depopulated" terminology along with the false claim that Rafah is the only crossing point for exiting residents of the Gaza Strip.
Despite the fact that Hamas openly acknowledges that some 200 armed combatants holed up in tunnels under Rafah are its fighters, a Reuters' story today called them "civilians." Following correspondence from CAMERA, the wire service pulled the story.
Reuters corrects after citing B'Tselem's grossly inflated figure for Israeli domestic water usage. But its article still ignores Israeli data indicating that double the amount of water recommended for daily use in emergency situations is available in the Gaza Strip.
Reuters relies on Ali Vaez, alleged to be an undisclosed influencer on behalf of the Iranian regime, to promote Hassan Khomeini as a "relative[ly] moderate" successor for the Islamic Republic's Supreme Leader. The purported "pragmatist" has previously shared his plans for wiping out Israel.
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.
