(not satire – it’s the Daily Mail!)

The following comment was posted on an online chat forum for Muslims yesterday inviting responses:

Some of the other members of the forum became suspicious by the strange comment and decided to check the new member’s IP address:

More up-to-date checks of the IP address by other members of the forum showed the comment was posted by someone working at the Daily Mail Group (the Evening Standard used to be part of the Daily Mail Group):

The whole thread has now been deleted from the forum but it can still be viewed on Google’s webcache here.

So it seems the Daily Mail ordered one of their journalists to pose as an extremist on a Muslim forum to try to elicit comments they could use for an anti-Muslim story.

Fortunately they were busted.

In a civilised society, a national newspaper journalist trying to stir up hatred and controversy with lies and subterfuge should be so professionally shameful it would normally lead to the sack for the hack concerned and investigations into standards of journalistic accountability at the publication.

At the Daily Mail – it’s just another day at the office.

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The Daily Mail timeline of shame

It’s time the Daily Mail apologised for supporting Hitler and its anti-semitic past

Oops! Mail on Sunday hack f*cks up his story attacking food banks

Daily Mail fail – newspaper uses false photo in Kenya shopping centre article

Photo of Mark Duggan at daughter’s funeral cropped to paint him as a gangster

I’ve applied for a job at the Daily Mail. Here’s my application letter

Daily Mail admits it was wrong about immigration (and hopes nobody will notice)

How Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre’s father avoided the front-line in WW2

Daily Mail story about sunrises being shown on big screens in Beijing was made up

Daily Mail Apologises To Its Readers After Admitting Publishing Something True

Child abuse scandal can of worms – just who is Daily Mail reporter David Rose?

Oops! Daily Mail gets British immigration test wrong

An APOLOGY to The Daily Mail from TOM PRIDE

This is what you get when you dare to question a tabloid journalist in the UK

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