corrections


Independent: Daily Mail apologises for Facebook underage sex claims

Thursday, 11 March 2010, 13:03

"The Daily Mail has today published an embarrassing apology after publishing an article claiming that a criminologist posing as a teenage girl on Facebook was inundated with contacts from men seeking sexual favours. … in today’s newspaper the Mail admits that Williams-Thomas was not using Facebook at all, but an entirely different and so far unspecified social networking site."

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Independent: Corrections: Jimmy Wales

Wednesday, 18 February 2009, 12:30

"In our article 'Wikiworld' (3 February 2009) we repeated several claims about Jimmy Wales, the Wikipedia founder … Jimmy Wales has pointed out that we repeated allegations which have no truth and we apologise to him for this."

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 Sunday, 28 October 2007, 23:58 0

Der Westen’s corrections blog. Nice idea – but does a link to the corrections blog post appear at the foot of the story being corrected?

 Wednesday, 12 September 2007, 09:25 0

Martin Belam looks for corrections in the national newspapers about the meerkat photo hoax… And finds remarkably little.

 Saturday, 19 May 2007, 09:23 0

Just about the worst correction a newspaper could have to make…