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Daily Mail journalist busted posing as Muslim extremist to stir up hatred

The following comment was posted on an online chat forum for Muslim syesterday inviting responses:

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Some of the other members of the forum became suspicious by the strange comment and decided to check the new member’s ISP address:

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More up-to-date checks of the ISP address by other members of the forum showed the comment was posted by someone working at the Daily Mail Group (the Evening Standard used to be part of the Daily Mail Group):

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The whole thread has now been deleted from the forum but it can still be viewed on Google’s webcache here.

So it seems the Daily Mail ordered one of their journalists to pose as an extremist on a Muslim forum to try to elicit comments they could use for an anti-Muslim story.

Fortunately they were busted.

In a civilised society, a national newspaper journalist trying to stir up hatred and controversy with lies and subterfuge should be so professionally shameful it would normally lead to the sack for the hack concerned and investigations into standards of journalistic accountability at the publication.

At the Daily Mail – it’s just another day at the office.

Source: Tom Pride WordPress

 

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  1. http://www.ummah.com/forum/showthread.php?408346-Statement-Regarding-allegations-about-Media

    “Just to make it clear Ummah.com has not accused Daily Mail / Standard of being behind this post, we simply questioned on that particular thread “Why was the IP address originating from that Network”, any other responses in that thread are opinions and thoughts of our user base”

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