While not all factual errors relating to Israel coverage are necessarily damaging or malicious, they should nonetheless be corrected and the media outlet held to account.
Such is the case with a Financial Times story that contained the following:
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In fact, the Zionist Union, with 24 seats, is the second-largest party in the Knesset, not Yesh Atid, which has 11. Yesh Atid isn’t even the second-largest party in the opposition.
We contacted the FT and, while it took longer than we expected for such a simple correction, the story was amended and the following added to the end:
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The importance of factual accuracy cannot be overstated. That’s why we will hold the media to account even when straightforward errors appear in stories.
