UK daily ordered to retract false story on Muslims
A major British newspaper, The Sun, has been ordered to publicly retract a report falsely claiming that one in five Muslims in the UK backed those joining militant groups, including Daesh, in Syria.
The Independent Press Standards Organization (IPSO) said a front page article by the daily from November 23, 2015 — as well as more coverage inside the paper — distorted the results of the poll on which they were based.
The Sun was ordered to print a statement acknowledging that its claims of major Muslim support within the UK for Britons joining the militant groups in Syria were significantly misleading, The Guardian reported on Saturday.
However, while the IPSO upheld its complaint about The Sun’s portrayal of the poll, the paper was spared having to print the notice of the arbitration on its front page.
The watchdog further said the newspaper had agreed to publish the notice on page two of its Saturday’s edition, after being ordered to place it within the first five pages.
It said the newspaper "had failed to take appropriate care in its presentation of the poll results and, as a result, the coverage was significantly misleading.”
IPSO said The Sun had also turned the false "support" into a related column that appeared in that day’s edition, a story by its political editor and in its front page picture caption.
The watchdog said it had received a large number of complaints regarding the daily’s coverage of the story.
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