UK regulators make historic decision in sexism complaint over 2022 Meghan Markle article
June 30, 2023
In what became a landmark ruling, the U.K.’s Independent Press Standards Organisation chose to uphold sexism complaints regarding a 2022 article about Meghan Markle that triggered more than 25,000 responses after being published by The Sun. “IPSO has upheld a complaint that a column in The Sun about the Duchess of Sussex included a pejorative and prejudicial reference to her sex,” the IPSO tweeted Friday. “This was a serious breach of the Editors’ Code of Practice.” The British press watchdog group launched an investigation into the article in which author Jeremy Clarkson called for the wife o...