The Daily Telegraph Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! === COVID-19 misinformation === {{Main|COVID-19 misinformation}} In January 2021 British press regulator, the [[Independent Press Standards Organisation]] ordered ''The Daily Telegraph'' to publish a correction to two "significantly misleading" claims in a comment article published by [[Toby Young]]. The July 2020 article "When we have herd immunity Boris will face a reckoning on this pointless and damaging lockdown," which spread [[COVID-19 misinformation]] that the common cold provided "natural immunity" to [[Coronavirus disease 2019|COVID-19]] and that London was "probably approaching herd immunity".<ref>{{Cite news|date=15 January 2021|title=Toby Young: Telegraph coronavirus column 'significantly misleading'|language=en-GB|work=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-55676037|access-date=15 January 2021|archive-date=15 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210115164617/https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-55676037|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite news|last=Bland|first=Archie|date=15 January 2021|title=Daily Telegraph rebuked over Toby Young's Covid column|language=en-GB|work=The Guardian|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/jan/14/daily-telegraph-rebuked-over-toby-youngs-herd-immunity-covid-column|access-date=15 January 2021|issn=0261-3077|archive-date=14 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210114205610/https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/jan/14/daily-telegraph-rebuked-over-toby-youngs-herd-immunity-covid-column|url-status=live}}</ref> The regulator said that a correction was appropriate rather than a more serious response due to the level of scientific uncertainty at the time the comment was published.<ref name=":0" /> At the time of the ruling, the Telegraph had removed the comment article but had not issued a correction.<ref name=":0" /> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page