The highest recorded volume of complaints has been made to a UK media watchdog against right-wing news outlets accused of a coordinated smear of Misan Harriman, an Oscar-nominated photographer and Southbank Centre chair.
The complaint tool, set up by media accountability platform NewsCord, surpassed 50,000 submissions after just 48 hours of being posted, and has now registered over 80,000 complaints.
This more than triples the previous record of around 25,000 complaints made to the Independent Press Standards Organisation (Ipso) over Jeremy Clarkson’s 2022 column on Meghan Markle in The Sun.
Harriman came under attack by the British press after sharing a post questioning why the police and media ignored a Muslim victim targeted prior to the Golders Green attack on two Jewish men.
He also shared a video focused on community building in light of Reform's local election wins, which used a quote from Jewish-American writer Susan Sontag about human behaviour.
