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‘Fly away gays- and we will pay’ The Suns headline in May 1987. They offered to pay for one way tickets for gay men to Norway #fuckthesun
Elton John filed 17 libel suits against them including one about him having his Rottweillers voiceboxes removed after it was revealed their source lied. #fuckthesun
‘Freddie Starr ate my hamster’ false story reported in March 1986. Alleged Freddie put a live hamster between two pieces of bread and ate it. #fuckthesun
March 1982 claimed to have sponsored a missile that was launched during the Falkland wars causing massive casualties. Not only was that an appalling thing to say it was also unsurprisingly a complete lie #fuckthesun
May 1983 ran the headline ‘US Gay blood plague kills three in Britain’ in relation to the AIDS crisis which gripped the world #fuckthesun
November 1989 ran a story on the inside cover claiming ‘straight sex cannot give you aids- official’. Endangering every single reader who read it #fuckthesun
April 1989 ran the headline ‘the truth’ in relation to the Hillsborough disaster where 96 died in a football stadium. They alleged fans pickpocketed victims, urinated on the emergency services and assaulted an officer performing resuscitation. All lies. #fuckthesun
Incidentally the people of Liverpool have rightly never forgiven and neither should anyone #fuckthesun
July 2003 ran the headline ‘swan bake’ falsely claiming that asylum seekers were slaughtering and eating swans #fuckthesun
Instead of retracting said statement after it was proven to be false they then ran the headline ‘now they are after our fish’ #fuckthesun
September 2003 when boxer Frank Bruno was admitted tohosthey ran the headline ‘bonkers bruno locked up’ #fuckthesun
April 2006 an unflattering photo of German chancellor Angela Merkel was headlined ‘im big in the Bumdestag’ #fuckthesun
Jan 2009 they alleged that participants on a British muslim Internet forum had a ‘hate hit list’ of British Jews. In transpired the only person posting hate on the forum was their own source #fuckthesun
December 2010 they claimed a islamic terrorist group had threatened an attack on Granada TV in Manchester to disrupt that evening’s episode of Coronation Street. This was a lie. This lie meant that all cast and crew on set that day had to submit to full body searches. #fuckthesun
August 2012 printed naked photos of Prince Harry while in private with friends whilst in Las Vegas #fuckthesun
Its sister paper News Of the World was shut down in 2011 after the phone hacking scandal. They shared a number of staff #fuckthesun
Those affected by phone hacking are attached. #fuckthesun https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_news_media_phone_hacking_scandal_victims
June 2013 ran the headline ‘Tulisa’s cocaine deal shame’ they set Tulisa up to believe she was in consideration for a role in a £8 million bollywood production in exchange for drugs.The subsequent trial against her collapsed due to their reporter manipulating evidence #fuckthesun
April 2015 Sun columnist referred to migrants as ‘cockroaches’, ‘feral humans’ and said they were ‘spreading like norovirus’. Her language echoing that used by a Rwandan newspaper and radio before the genocide there in 1994. #fuckthesun
August 2017 the published a column about how british society should deal with ‘The Muslim Problem’. Using language reminiscent of Nazi propaganda. #fuckthesun
March 2016 ran a headline claiming the Queen told Nick Clegg she was backing Brexit. Both have denied any conversation ever happened #fuckthesun
June 2018 ran aheadlime claiming a modestly dressed 17 year old actress should ‘flash a bit of flesh’ #fuckthesun
September 2019 ran a story about an English Cricketer who had experienced a family tragedy 30 years before. The family had asked for the story to not run. It was not relevant to anything current in the cricketers life- it was just to make a headline #fuckthesun
February 2020 ran a story the day before Caroline Flack was found dead about a brutal Valentines day card mocking her. After her arrest for domestic violence they mentioned her almost daily until she committed suicide #fuckthesun
June 2020 after JK Rowling published a blog post where she described her first husband as abusive they tracked him down, interviewed him and ran a headline saying ‘i slapped JK and im not sorry’ #fuckthesun
April 2018 they printed the headline ‘gone Potty: how can JK Rowling be ‘genuinely happy’ casting wife beater Johnny Depp in the new ‘Fantastic Beasts’ film?’ This relates to the false allegations of Amber Heard about her marriage to Johnny Depp. And tomorrow
In Londons High Court room 13 Johnny Depp gets to stare down The Sun while he sues them for defamation and I hope he looks at them and thinks. #fuckthesun
