(RT) After referring to the very real practice of the funding of terrorist families as a “far right conspiracy theory,” the NY Times was forced to issue a retraction.
Related A Great Example of Real ‘Fake News.’
by Staff Writer, April 25th, 2018
The New York Times was forced to issue a lengthy correction after it published a false statement in an article about “fake news” on Facebook.
In an article about Facebook’s Head of News Partnerships Campbell Brown, NYT journalist Nellie Bowles originally wrote that news about the Palestinian Authority paying rewards to the families of jihadists who die fighting Israel was “an example of the sort of far-right conspiracy theories that have plagued Facebook.”
The Palestinian Authority does in fact pay a stipend to the families of dead or captured jihadists, under the Palestinian Authority Martyrs Fund. The fund was introduced by Fatah in 1964, and is now administered by the Palestinian Liberation Organization.
“This financial reward clearly demonstrates the PA’s institutional commitment to sponsoring terror against Israel,” read a study from the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs.
The following day, the paper issued the following correction:
“An earlier version of this article erroneously included a reference to Palestinian actions as an example of the sort of far-right conspiracy stories that have plagued Facebook. In fact, Palestinian officials have acknowledged providing payments to the families of Palestinians killed while carrying out attacks on Israelis or convicted of terrorist acts and imprisoned in Israel; that is not a conspiracy theory.”
The error drew the ire of pro-Israel voices on Twitter, however:
Amazing. Basically all NYT stories on Israel and Judaism are incomplete until the correction is posted https://t.co/OevgQ9CLcF
— Seth Mandel (@SethAMandel) April 24, 2018
THIS IS the correction of the year. Unfortunately nobody reads @nytimes corrections. It was a pathetic journalistic move to even put it in the article about Campbell Brown and @facebook https://t.co/8BabVQQUEz
— Michael Eisenberg (@mikeeisenberg) April 24, 2018
https://twitter.com/BecketAdams/status/988789817952661505
NY TIMES BUSTED WITH FAKE NEWS ABOUT WELL FAKE NEWS:
NYT dismissed Palestinian officials giving pensions to anti-Israel terrorist as a “far-right” conspiracy.
Only ONE problem it’s true and they did.https://t.co/DXvbSET19C
— JW Watch (@JW_Watch) April 24, 2018
Aside from the now-corrected statement, Bowles’ profile on Brown outlines how the Facebook news head has reacted to questions from the press on the recent Cambridge Analytica scandal, and details Facebook’s plans to launch its own news service.
found on The Free Thought Project
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Mike Worthington says
Does the Israeli government pay the family of soldiers that die while on operations against Palestine?