GB News broadcasts half of all UK stories about Muslims, analysis shows

The GB News control room. The channel mentioned Muslims or Islam more than 17,000 times in its output over a two-year period. Photograph: Antonio Olmos/The Observer

GB News accounted for half of all news broadcast coverage of Muslims over a two-year period, much of it negative, according to new analysis.

The findings demonstrate an “excessive” focus on Muslims bordering on an “obsession”, according to a new report by the Centre for Media Monitoring (CfMM).