The claim that the militant Islamist group demanded that all women in Mosul undergo FGM proved to be untrue, but what about the other reports of violence in the caliphate?
The head of Iraq's largest church has denounced Islamic insurgents who have driven the last of Mosul's Christians out of the city, condemning their crimes as "heinous".
Further reports of terrible human rights abuses are surfacing as IS jihadists continue to tighten their grip on areas throughout northern Iraq and Syria.
"The proportion of Muslims who are radicalised is extraordinarily small...I think we've been becoming too hysterical about this subject for some considerable period," warned Archbishop Justin Welby.