Ofcom urged to investigate GB News Trump interview over inaccuracy claims

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Source: theguardian.com
Ofcom urged to investigate GB News Trump interview over inaccuracy claims

US president’s assertions climate change is ‘a hoax’ and London has police no-go areas left unchallenged, say critics

Britain’s media regulator Ofcom is under pressure to investigate a GB News interview with Donald Trump after complaints that it contained misleading and inaccurate claims that the network failed to challenge.

The rightwing channel claimed a “world exclusive sit-down interview” with the US president in November, in which Trump asserted that human-induced climate change was “a hoax” and that London had no-go areas for police and that the capital had “sharia law”.

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