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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Amanda Meade Media correspondent

Daily Telegraph headline wrongly claiming ‘Labor backs Hamas’ breached accuracy rules, Australian Press Council finds

News Corp Australia’s headquarters in Sydney
News Corp Australia’s headquarters in Sydney. The Daily Telegraph has been found to have breached press standards for a headline that wrongly said Labor backs Hamas. Photograph: James Horan/AAP

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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