Morgunblaðið, a right-wing newspaper affiliated with the Independence Party, has published a story claiming that brown people are increasingly applying for disability benefits and are much more likely than white people to apply for disability benefits, and has provided figures to support the story. DV, an independent and free news outlet, has refuted this half-truth. The fact is that 1 in 5 white people in the labor market apply for disability benefits at some point, while 1 in 28 brown people in the labor market do. Morgunblaðið, however, uses misleading percentage figures to give people the impression that brown people are a burden on the welfare system. - In recent days, a number of Morgunblaðið employees have been laid off, and it has been suggested that this is for streamlining purposes, but the most right-wing employees remain.
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