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GB News faces Ofcom investigation into host Covid recall claims | UK News

by Loma Zoma
July 28, 2022


GB News is being investigated by media regulator Ofcom after one of its hosts made misleading claims about the side effects of Covid booster shots.

Presenter Mark Steyn wrongly alleged that having the extra dose was killing Britons and alleged there was media silence on the matter.

The independent fact-checking website Full Fact said its claim, made in a broadcast on April 21, was based “on an inaccurate reading of a vaccine surveillance report, which specifically includes a caveat that the data cannot be used to determine the effectiveness of the vaccine”. .

They said this source of data has been repeatedly used to draw the wrong conclusions by opponents of vaccination programs.

Steyn is based outside the UK and often broadcasts from his home in Canada. This month, the long-time vaccine skeptic presented an hour-long ‘Victims of the Vax’ special for GB News in which he interviewed people who blamed the deaths of family members on the bites of Covid. In a sign of nervousness over the airing of such content in the UK, GB News has linked to official NHS resources on the vaccine in its uploads of the show.

The channel has regularly provided a platform for people critical of the scientific response to Covid, with a host promoting the benefits of the horse tranquilizer Ivermectin.

Before the launch of GB News last year, there were questions about how Ofcom would regulate an overtly political TV news channel in its outlook. UK Broadcasting Act requires a commitment to “required impartiality”, meaning that an audience must be exposed to alternative viewpoints. However, a channel can still take a strong editorial line – and doesn’t have to give equal airtime to both sides of a debate.

In the beginning, GB News regularly booked left-leaning guests for talks to ensure they could meet this standard of impartiality. But station staff said they did less once they realized Ofcom was not going to press the issue.

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Although GB News has attracted a steady stream of complaints from Ofcom over its production, very few have progressed to the stage of formal investigations and the channel has yet to be found guilty of breaching the Broadcasting Code. . Instead, presenters prefer to regularly mention Ofcom on air as a bogeyman coming for the channel.

Ofcom has so far only investigated two other GB News shows: one, on an episode of To The Point hosted by Patrick Christys & Mercy Muroki, was resolved without sanction, while a second swearing investigated by anti-vaccine activists August 23 episode of Nigel Farage’s Talking Pints ​​- where the former Ukip chief drank with ex-darts player Bobby George – is the subject of investigation as a potential breach of general standards.

After a disastrous launch, GB News has steadily increased its audiences and now regularly outperforms Piers Morgan’s talkTV, which has a significantly larger budget – although both channels are happy to exceed 100,000 viewers for one programme.

GB News has been contacted for comment.

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