Our investigation found this demonisation of mosques was made up
Basic checks would have prevented this dangerous lie being spread
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The caller "Tom" was given almost 17 mins of airtime by @cristo_radio to make allegations including how he was prevented from entering the #Mosque, was threatened with decapitation the streets of #Oldham and that he needed police back up on call-outs to certain addresses
The presenter further curated the call in a direction where the caller was allowed to say parts of Greater Manchester had areas he wouldn't go into and all of the areas had the common feature of being "highly populated by #Muslims ." Where have we heard this before?
The clips have been removed by @talkradio yet both it and @cristo_radio have not made any acknowledgment that the story they initiated on their platform was false
The @NWAmbulance has confirmed that no one of the description of the caller works for them, none of the alleged allegations have been recorded and there are no agreements of the type claimed by the caller. @dailystar published story before verifying any of this information
The @Daily_Express has removed its online piece with no acknowledgment of the false story that was published and @talkradio has also removed clips yet both it and @cristo_radio have not made any acknowledgment that the story they initiated on their platform was false
The presenter @cristo_radio of @talkRADIO has acknowledged the issue and will be responding on his show at 10 PM today, do listen in.
📢 NEW REPORT:
A year-long analysis of BBC coverage of Israel’s war on Gaza reveals a pattern of bias, double standards & silencing of Palestinian voices.
Despite 34x more Palestinian deaths, Israeli fatalities received 33x more coverage per death.
Humanising stories:
BBC ran nearly the same number of victim profiles for Palestinians (279) & Israelis (201) — despite 34 times more Palestinian deaths.
📣 Emotive language like “slaughter” & “massacre” was used 4x more often for Israelis.
#MediaBias #BBCGazaCoverage @BBCNews
🎙️ Whose voices count?
The BBC interviewed:
🔹 2,350 Israelis
🔹 1,085 Palestinians
GB News reporting here on local opposition to a Muslim burial site being built in Farnham. The journalist focused the story on 'concerns around Muslim practices of body storage', as reported by "local press". These reports don't exist. Is GB News manufacturing moral outage?
The 1st interviewee, an activist in Farnham, dismissed GB News' line of questioning, referring instead to concerns around congestion and the environment, not body storage.
A 2nd interviewee was then brought on to discuss the "difference between a Muslim burial and a normal Christian one". The interviewee was then asked about "local concerns about [unrefrigerated] bodies" and whether it is "legal in the UK to store an [unrefrigerated] body for 24hr"
During this election, GB News, the Telegraph, Jewish Chronicle & other news outlets have framed Muslims voting in the #GeneralElection2024 as “sectarian”, “extremists”, antisemites and constantly questioned their loyalty to Britain.
Evidence laid out in the thread below 🧵1/25
Concerns and anger over Gaza have been framed as a "Muslim issue" across the media and elections such as Rochdale where @georgegalloway won have been described as as a dark period for British Democracy
The good Muslim/bad Muslim dichotomy was seen on Talk TV when speaking about the Rochdale by-election, where those who voted for @georgegalloway were described as "Hardline Muslims" by Tim Montgomery
As @nytimes latest podcast shows, there was no plot and the media failed to ask basic questions around the letter and its origins.
Lives ruined. Communities slurred. Will newspapers and broadcasters apologise?
As @OborneTweets has argued; “With few exceptions, journalists failed to examine the underlying facts while repeating what turned out to be false allegations.”
The investigation by @samirashackle in @gdnlongread states,“It is hard to imagine these kinds of stories garnering such levels of media attention had they not involved Muslim staff or pupils.”
Today, as the #Christchurch attacker faces sentencing in New Zealand, CfMM has launched a groundbreaking report, "How The British Media Reports Terrorism."
Reporting of attacks is inconsistent, depending on who the perpetrator is, with white, non-Muslim perpetrators less likely to be referred to as #terrorists.
Words identifying #Muslims or #Islam are more frequently placed alongside “terror”, “terrorist”, “terrorism”, or “terrorist(s)” in comparison with the most frequent identifiers of #farright or #WhiteSupremacist terrorism.