Hacked Off has produced a very detailed report in which they detail how fake/false stories have been published by the corporate media and then used as propaganda by far right groups to incite many others especially via social media.
The following are just some of the examples of those stories and how they are being used by nazis, fascists and racists….
Newspapers must be held accountable
IPSO shelters newspapers from accountability by creating the perception of independent regulation.
The reality is that IPSO lacks both the power and the inclination to uphold standards in the press. It is routine for newspapers to breach its code without consequence.
This means that they are able to promote racial hatred, intrude on people’s lives or abuse them in other ways. It means the public is often misled, and inaccuracies go uncorrected.
But this report shows how the absence of effective press regulation is harming society in other ways, which are potentially even more dangerous.
The terrorist responsible for the attack in Christchurch New Zealand had engaged with and made posts in online white supremacist groups. The terrorist responsible for the attack which slaughtered dozens of young people in Norway in 2011 had frequently posted on an openly Islamophobic internet forum.
The terrorist who murdered nine African Americans in Charleston, South Carolina, said he turned towards violence after discovering a white supremacist website.
Before the attack the Charleston killer wrote this:We need journalism that not afraid to tell us uncomfortable truths about our world. What we do not need is journalism that tells us untruths, whether it is done through laziness or malice. In Britain we have national newspapers that enjoy a huge online reach yet are completely unaccountable when they get things wrong.
It must be a matter of concern that anti-Semites, Islamophobes and white supremacists, operating on sites that can be breeding grounds for terrorists, are circulating recklessly false national newspaper stories as propaganda. Those newspaper stories are not inevitable: they are the direct consequence of the lack of accountability of the press.
The Full REPORT can be read here.
James Finlayson
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