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The Guardian - UK
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GB News broke Ofcom rules with presenter’s Covid vaccine claims

Mark Steyn broadcasting on GB News
Mark Steyn was one of GB News’s leading presenters before resigning last month. Photograph: GB News

GB News breached rules on potentially harmful content when the presenter Mark Steyn used official health data to draw misleading conclusions about the Covid-19 booster that “materially misled” the audience, the media regulator has found.

Ofcom said Steyn used UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) data in a broadcast on 21 April last year to wrongly claim the figures provided evidence that a third booster was causing higher infection, hospitalisation and deaths.

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