https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/0/telegraph-corrections-and-clarifications/
As many of these articles have been popular here turns out they had to make corrections and clarification for many lately. Wish we had a website that had all the press corrections in one place
February 11, 2025
An article ‘Defence is more important than net zero’ (Dec, 6) referred to Labour’s drive for net zero by 2030. In fact Labour’s plan was to decarbonise the energy sector by 2030. We are happy to correct the record.
February 7, 2025
An article “Extend child puberty blocker ban to sex change hormones, Wes Streeting told” (Jan, 31) reported that Keira Bell won a case in 2020 against the Tavistock Clinic. Although she won in the High Court, the decision was overturned by the Court of Appeal. We are happy to correct the record
February 5, 2025
In an article “We have no clue how many people live in Britain – and Starmer doesn’t care” (Jan,23) it was stated that one in 12 people in London is an illegal migrant. The figure is up to one in 13 in the Thames Water London Water Resource Zone , which does not cover the whole of London. We are happy to correct the record.
February 4, 2025
In an article “Enough learnt helplessness. Here’s how Britain ends illegal immigration” (Jan, 24) it was stated that one in 12 people in London is an illegal migrant. The figure is up to one in 13 in the Thames Water London Water Resource Zone, which does not cover the whole of London. We are happy to correct the record.
January 31, 2025
In an online article “Up to one in 12 in London is an illegal migrant” (Jan, 22), the figure of 7,044,667 was the estimated population of the Thames Water London Water Resource Zone, excluding irregular migrants, not geographical London which is about 9 million. “Up to 1 in 12 illegal migrants” was incorrect and ought to have been “up to 1 in 13”, based on the study’s upper figure for irregular migrants, which includes children born in the UK with irregular status and, it is understood, those with indefinite leave to remain. We are happy to correct the record
Latest corrections and clarifications from the Telegraph
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This is great. Newspaper corrections should be posted here every month in a correction thread or something of it’s like
All press corrections/retractions/clarifications should have to be printed and published in the same position within the paper and on their website. With the same font sizes/general styling.
Any marketing budget used to promote the incorrect article should be matched to advertise the correction.
>We are happy to correct the record
Are they really?
This sub should ban telegraph posts tbh, they get posted constantly here and are always full of misinformation or outright lies.
> The figure is up to one in 13 in the Thames Water London Water Resource Zone , which does not cover the whole of London
Is this good?
Climate change, trans issues, immigration, immigration, immigration. Interesting that these mistakes are all on controversial topics, and a lot of the incorrect information published would have served to inflame said issues.
Compare that to the [Financial Times](https://www.ft.com/corrections), where their recent mistakes are things like “incorrectly said a bridge was listed” and “we typoed a currency conversion”.
Does free or proper press even exist in this country? It is basically all Oligarchy media that has already destroyed the USA. Social media like Facebook,Twitter also owned by Oligarchs. Telegraph,Daily Mail,Sun,GB News also Oligarchy propaganda. We live in the times like the 1984 novel. I could see it getting worse. All lies,all propaganda,and the scariest thing is that most of the public follow them without hesitation. The lack of truth can kill any society.
Well the damage has been done and purple who read it first hand would simply believe it and not change their mind.
Should really come with fines for repeat offenses tbqh. Obvs a high bar so you dont get billed for accidently calling some cat in a tree mr snuffles rather than mr nuffle: but its quite clear that the telegraph knows the above is horseshit but their editorial board would like to push a line.
>We are happy to correct the record
It’s about time this shit was made to have the same prominence as the original article.
I’m just glad constantly correcting the record makes them so happy. They must be having a great time
The problem with this is that the damage has already been done. These papers can spew any old sh*t and people lap it up, get enraged by it and take it as 100% true fact – it’s internalised and becomes part of their opinions. The retractions and clarifications do nothing, because they either don’t get read, or the opinion based on the original article is so entrenched in people’s minds that it becomes fact to them. We are living in a post truth world, where the political opinions of a huge swathe of people are based solely on the first thing they read, whether it’s fact or fiction.
Since this sub is allowed to be used by the newspapers to promote their garbage lies these corrections should surely be required to be submitted as well and ideally stickied, given the paper told lies.
>“Up to 1 in 12 illegal migrants” was incorrect and ought to have been “up to 1 in 13”, based on the study’s upper figure for irregular migrants, which includes children born in the UK with irregular status and, it is understood, **those with indefinite leave to remain.** We are happy to correct the record
What utter melee mouthed nonsense
It’s obvious that Telegraph employees are using these UK subs as a commercial space to spam their ‘wares’.
Hey, /u/TheTelegraph
Multiple corrections here of mistakes that promoted division and push anti-immigrant, anti-Labour rhetoric- any intention to make steps to avoid this level of mistake again? Is there a CAPA in place to remedy it?
Judging by those comments about the 1 in 12 claim, they couldn’t even bring themselves to be honest about all of their corrections!
Great idea for a regard post. You should also post it to UKpolitics. They still treat the Telegraph like it’s a real media outlet too.
We’re happy to quietly say “we lied” after spreading our lies.
FFS.
I love the February 4th and 5th correction. It’s like the government think that corrections completely solves the issue. One in 13 undocumented people is a lot of people