A story headlined “Jo Cox’s murder was followed by 50,000 tweets celebrating her death” has been removed from our website. It was based on a press release from the anti-racism campaigners Hope Not Hate, which they admit made incorrect claims about research into Twitter and Jo Cox’s death. They wish to clarify that the academic research upon which the story was based analysed 53,000 tweets concerning the language of social media users at the time of the EU referendum. The research put no figure on tweets that denigrated the MP.
“In their bravery, these women diminish their abusers” (page 37, Scotland edition, last week) described Michelle Thomson as a Scottish Nationalist MP. She resigned the SNP whip last year while allegations of mortgage fraud, which she denies, are investigated.
Our piece on the future of shopping (Business, last week, page 43) reported on the Amazon Go brand being brought to the UK and was illustrated with a photograph of its store in Seattle, which we said had a “no-staff, no-tills” shopping model. No tills certainly, but the store does have staff. And contrary to the text, Amazon Go will not be limited to Prime members.
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