Emma Monk is brilliant 👏👏👏 (follow her!), but bloody hell...her work is solid proof that Brandolini's Law is real. 🫨

It's Em. She shoots. She scores. They're lying pigs. Obviously.

They've all been at it. I wonder whether being able to point to a "report" that made the misleading claim will give them some cover? I guess we'll find out... 27/

Apparently they were "happy" to set out the correct position🤔 (At the back of the paper where no one will bother reading it, and at the bottom of the months-old online version which no one is going to re-read) The damage is done with the headline. The correction will never undo it 25/

But guess what? That wasn't the only time they made that "mistake" in 2015 They had to remove the line "with people from overseas getting new jobs at 10 times the rate of British-born workers" 24/

So the Express had to change the online headline, include a correction (right at the bottom) and print a correction in a subsequent print edition (buried on pg 40🙄) As an aside - look at the photos they used to illustrate this article 😱 They remained in the updated version. 23/

In 2015, the Express ran with: 🚨"Shocking figures reveal three out of four British jobs go to EU migrants" (FFS - it's like a broken record!) The upheld IPSO complaint explained why the figures were misleading👇 (yes that's basically my previous thread and this one condensed!) 22/

This doesn’t point to foreigners “taking” jobs away from British people. It suggests an increase in available positions that cannot be fulfilled by British workers alone. 20/

Jobs held by foreign workers have indeed increased from 11% to 20% But the whole pie has also increased, as has the number of payrolled jobs held by British workers. 19/

"But it's based on official government data" is not a get-out-of-jail-free card for misinformation! A lot of misinformation IS based on real data - it's just manipulated to tell a story and stripped of nuance to make it "easy" to understand. Debunking it involves explaining complexities 🫣

So here is a far less misleading handy graphic using the exact same dataset as CSJ. Amazing what you can do with data, huh!🤷‍♀️ 17/

And they will have known full well that most people would read that to mean who *started* a new job since 2014. Not how many EXTRA people are working in payrolled jobs since 2014. 16/

But of course logic like that is lost on the right-wing think tank/media ecosystem. So the Daily Mail went with this graphic showing "who got new jobs in Britain since 2024" I mean, look at the big scary red section! 🙄🙄🙄 15/