19/5/22: IPSO has sided with a member of the public over an accuracy concern at mirror.co.uk, but ruled the website’s own remedy to the error was satisfactory.
The December 2021 article in dispute was titled “New Year’s asteroid bigger than Big Ben to crash into Earth’s atmosphere” and opened by claiming the celestial body would “burn through Earth’s atmosphere”. The article subsequently made clear it would pass Earth by.
Made aware of the complaint, the Mirror changed the headline to “New Year’s asteroid bigger than Big Ben to come close to Earth” and added a note saying: “This headline and article have been amended after publication to correct the claim the asteroid would ‘crash into Earth’s atmosphere’. It is due to pass over 3 million miles away.”
Although the complainant wanted the Mirror to go further and explain “how the error had occurred”, IPSO said it was satisfied with the correction offered. Full ruling here.
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