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Ofcom Set To Receive 60,000 Complaints Over GB News Pedophile Joke
Ofcom will receive 60,000 complaints over the GB News Josh Howie paedo joke from the Good Law Project.
Ofcom is already “carefully assessing” more than 1,000 complaints about the GB News Headliners show during which, discussing Mariann Budde’s sermon in which she quietly implored Donald Trump to have mercy on LGBTQ+ people, comedian Josh Howie said the community included paedophiles, “if you’re doing the full inclusion there.” Were Ofcom to take each complaint in turn, the plus-60,000 would be a record, beating the 55,000 who complained over Piers Morgan’s infamous Good Morning Britain rant, during which he questioned Meghan Markle’s claim that her time living with the royal family had left her feeling suicidal. GB News has repeatedly fallen foul of the Ofcom code and was fined £100,000 ($124,000) last year over its People’s Forum: The Prime Minister live show with Rishi Sunak, which its boss decried as a “direct attack on free speech and journalism.”
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