The Telegraph tried to turn the Celebrity Traitors winners' donations to refugees into an antisemitism scandal. Its own article says the allegation was not upheld.

Sebastian Croft gave his £41,500 prize to a refugee charity. The Telegraph's headline carried an allegation a KC did not uphold, and its article misstates Amnesty's report. Ask IPSO to act.

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On 30 October, Romesh Ranganathan and Sebastian Croft won Celebrity Traitors and gave their prize money to refugee charities. Within days, newspapers had turned two donations to refugees into a scandal.

The Telegraph answered with a 1,400-word article by Nicole Lampert about Croft's £41,500 donation to a refugee charity, Choose Love. Its first headline said the charity was "accused of being 'hostile environment for Jews'". The Telegraph later changed it, with no note, to "charity at centre of anti-Semitism row".

The article's own fourth paragraph says: "An independent investigation carried out by a KC did not uphold the allegations." The Telegraph ran the allegation in the headline anyway. The words "hostile environment for Jews" appear nowhere in the article.