A Sky News correspondent has been accused of taking “a side” in the war between Israel and Hamas after claiming the former had committed “war crimes”.
Alex Crawford, the channel’s special correspondent, also had a “community note” – a tool used to fact-check posts – attached to one of her tweets.
On Sunday, a former BBC executive said the correspondent appeared “uninterested in the principles of impartiality, balance and accuracy”.
Sky News’s social media guidelines state that as a journalist for the broadcaster, “you are expected to use social media responsibly, adhering to the principles of fairness, accuracy, impartiality, legality and rigour”.
Text in Sky’s editorial guidelines continues: “You are personally responsible for the content you publish on social networks.”
Ms Crawford is one of more than 50 broadcast journalists who has signed a petition demanding the Israeli and Egyptian embassies provide “free and unfettered access” to Gaza.
In December Ms Crawford, 61, claimed that journalists were being kept out of Gaza to cover-up Israeli criminality.
Writing on Twitter, now known as X, Ms Crawford, who was awarded an OBE by the late Queen, said: “It is absolutely farcical to try to peddle the view that foreign journalists are not entering Gaza because it’s ‘dangerous’.
“International journalists have been delib [deliberately] blocked from entering Gaza by primarily Israel who doesn’t want them seeing the war crimes.”
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