Four years of unprecedented media controversy over 'Labour antisemitism'.

Tweets & Facebook posts by random Labour members were given headline coverage.

Now look at the media reaction when presented with masses of evidence undermining key elements of that story: https://twitter.com/PolProfSteve/status/1250302370862395392
"shut up, no-one cares" https://twitter.com/iainmartin1/status/1249747943143493632
"shut up" https://twitter.com/greenmiranda/status/1249721041263513601
In a study of inaccurate reporting of this story, BBC TV News was one of the worst offenders: https://www.mediareform.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Labour-antisemitism-and-the-news-FINAL-CORRECTED.pdf.

A BBC Panorama episode relied on the testimony of staffers examined in the leaked Labour report.

BBC coverage of the Labour report: https://twitter.com/ta_mills/status/1250060112082997250
Chief UK Political Commentator and Financial Times UK Editor at Large on the nearly 900-page report: "doesn't every squeal from the fringe boost your confidence in Starmer" https://twitter.com/robertshrimsley/status/1249721612338954240 (h/t @ANHook1)
The Guardian covered 'Labour antisemitism' obsessively for years.

In a study of inaccurate media reporting of this story, the Guardian came out worst: https://www.mediareform.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Labour-antisemitism-and-the-news-FINAL-CORRECTED.pdf

It was reportedly offered the Labour report scoop, and refused to publish. https://twitter.com/JVoiceLabour/status/1250203336671997952
Matt Chorley, The Times: "The big problem, of course, with all this coming now, is that all the cranks, conspiracists and Corbynites are stuck at home with nothing but their Twitter log-ins and their wild imagination to help them lose their collective minds over all of this"
When the JLM's final submission to the EHRC was leaked, Sebastian Payne devoted a long thread to its allegations: https://twitter.com/SebastianEPayne/status/1202535846957764608

In response to the leaked Labour report, Payne finds it 'incredible' that it should take up any attention whatsoever: https://twitter.com/SebastianEPayne/status/1249725076129361928
That leaked JLM submission redacted the names of its witnesses, but did not redact the names of the people they accused.

Journalists showed little or no concern about this data breach.

With the leaked Labour report, the data breach appears to be the MAIN or ONLY concern.
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