Peta Credlin's apology to Kevin Rudd over false data harvesting claims

Sky News commentator Peta Credlin has apologised on air to the Australian former prime minister Kevin Rudd for saying his petition calling for a royal commission into the Rupert Murdoch media was a “data harvesting exercise”. After Rudd’s petition reached a historic high of half a million signatures in November, Credlin accused him of gathering email addresses to “bombard people with hard-left propaganda and urge them to boycott the Murdoch media”. The former Labor prime minister immediately called for Credlin, a former chief of staff to Tony Abbott, to apologise “for her lies” but she did not withdraw them. Subscribe to Guardian News on YouTube ► http://bit.ly/guardianwiressub Peta Credlin forced to apologise to Kevin Rudd over false data harvesting claims ► https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/feb/01/peta-credlin-forced-to-apologise-to-kevin-rudd-over-false-data-harvesting-claims Support the Guardian ► https://support.theguardian.com/contribute Today in Focus podcast ► https://www.theguardian.com/news/series/todayinfocus The Guardian YouTube network: The Guardian ► http://www.youtube.com/theguardian Guardian Football ► http://is.gd/guardianfootball Guardian Sport ► http://bit.ly/GDNsport Guardian Culture ► http://is.gd/guardianculture