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Mail forced to take down article littered with ‘lies, inaccuracies and factual mistakes’
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THE DAILY MAIL was forced to delete an inflammatory article about illegal immigrants in a French suburb after it was described as “a sum of lies, inaccuracies, factual mistakes and data/quotes with no sources.”

French activist Marwan Muhammad identified 15 mistakes in Andrew Malone’s report, headed “Powder keg Paris,” including a claim that there are “as many as 300,000 illegal immigrants” in Saint Denis, “according to French parliamentarians.”

 

Hello @MailOnline. I've read your "devastating" article on "illegal migrants in Saint Denis". We too in France have tabloïds who couldn't care less about the truth, but I really have to say: you're in a league of your own. Everything in your paper is wrong. A fact checking: pic.twitter.com/zWiqlffxsP

— Marwan Muhammad (@_MarwanMuhammad) August 4, 2018
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