Thread by @cfmmuk

Another win for CfMM and our supporters! @TheSun has changed an incredibly misleading headline and opening paragraph, following complaints from our staff and volunteers. A huge thank you to all who have written in!

The initial headline wrongly implied that half of all imported UK #COVID19 cases were from Pakistan, and noted that 65K people returned to the UK from there since 1 March, implying a huge influx of cases prior to #lockdown.

A clear example of skewed information. In fact, the data (from @PHE_uk) only included cases since 4 June, & total imported cases from Pakistan were only 30.

Considering we've had over 310K confirmed COVID-19 cases in the UK, this number is less than 0.01% of the total.

coronavirus.data.gov.uk

Most imported cases to the UK actually came from other EU countries, especially Italy, France and Spain, according to this report: bbc.co.uk/news/health-52…

We're glad that the Sun agreed to change this very misleading article, one which could easily feed into racist narratives and stereotypes, endangering UK communities in the process.

However, it's unacceptable that our national newspapers continue to publish these "stories".

So far, the @Telegraph (who initially reported this "story") and @MailOnline have yet to follow suit! We encourage our followers to complain to these publications on the basis of inaccuracy, which breaches Clause 1 of the @IpsoNews Editors' Code.

Send your complaints to the Mail Online here:

mailonline.co.uk/readerseditor

And to the Daily Telegraph here:

telegraph.co.uk/contact-us/edi…