The Sun has been forced to admit that its front page splash which claimed that “1 in 5 Brit Muslims’ have sympathy for jihadis”, was “significantly misleading”.
The Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO) ruled today (26 March) that the newspaper misrepresented the results of a poll, which formed the basis of the November article.
The poll results had been reported by the newspaper as demonstrating that those surveyed showed “some sympathy with those like Jihadi John” the newspaper’s columnist stated as fact that there was “support” for IS, and sympathy with a “murderous, twisted ideology”.
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Source: The Drum
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