🚨 In response to complainants of this campaign, IPSO has ruled that erasing half of Prince Harry’s message doesn’t breach its Accuracy code.
Harry warned about rising antisemitism AND anti-Muslim hate. The Times cut the anti-Muslim half. 9,000 complaints, in total, went to outlets that did the same.
IPSO’s reply to complainants, verbatim: “under the Editors’ Code, articles do not need to be balanced, as long as publications take care not to publish inaccurate, misleading or distorted information.”
IPSO bans “misleading or distorted information.” Then it ruled that deleting half of Harry’s argument is neither.
Harry, in the New Statesman: “We must stand against both anti-Semitism and anti-Muslim hate.”
The Times: “Harry speaks out on Gaza and rise of antisemitism.”
The regulator has just told every newsroom: omit whatever you like, as long as what survives is technically accurate.
We now have an action campaign for this:
newscord.org/action/harry-op…
In under a minute, you can demand a correction and raise a complaint to the BBC, Times, LBC, ITV, CNN, Sky News, and Reuters, who have all omitted the truth from their headlines.