Summary:
The Sun has been ordered to print a statement acknowledging that its claims that one in five British Muslims supported people who have gone to Syria to fight for jihadi groups such as Islamic State were significantly misleading. The Independent Press Standards Organisation (Ipso) said a front page article from 23 November last year – as well as more coverage inside the paper – misrepresented the results of the poll on which they were based because the relevant question in its poll did not support the claim. But, while Ipso upheld the complaint it investigated, the paper was spared having to print notice of the adjudication on its front page. The watchdog said the newspaper had agreed to publish the notice on page two of Saturday’s edition, having been ordered to place it no further back than page five.
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What's my view?
Its good that the Sun was forced to print a statement acknowledging that what they said was misleading and perhaps inaccurate. On twitter, many hashtags were trending that were taking the mick out of what the Sun about "1 in 5 Brit Muslims'...". The force that social media have nowadays could have potentially made it essentiel for the Sun to print the statement as the hashtags achieved its purpose on making people aware of what the Sun had done.
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