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Daily Telegraph headline about Labor and Hamas breached accuracy rules, Australian Press Council finds

The Guardian - Media · Amanda Meade Media correspondent · last updated

Murdoch tabloid headline ‘To keep peace at home, Labor backs Hamas’ wrongly presented as a statement of fact, watchdog says

A Daily Telegraph headline that said “Labor backs Hamas” breached press standards while failing to take into consideration “heightened community sensitivities” due to the Israel-Gaza war, the Australian Press Council has found.

In publishing the article headed “To keep peace at home, Labor backs Hamas”, the Murdoch tabloid breached the APC rules because it did not take reasonable steps to ensure factual material was accurate and not misleading, the watchdog said.

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