ABC reverses editorial decisions on Capitol breach and Craig Kelly Covid posts

Staff initially banned from calling attack on US Capitol an insurrection and changes reference to Kelly’s ‘unofficial information’ to ‘misinformation’

The ABC has reversed two editorial decisions about its reporting on the assault on the US Capitol and misinformation about Covid-19 spread by the MP Craig Kelly.

On Tuesday Mark Maley, the ABC’s manager of editorial policy, banned unattributed use of the word “insurrection” in news reporting to describe the 6 January attack.

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