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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Peter Walker Deputy political editor

Jewish group criticises GB News host over ‘dangerous conspiracy theory’

Beverley Turner
Turner co-presents a regular morning show on GB News. Photograph: Kate Green/Getty Images

A leading Jewish group has criticised a prominent GB News presenter for spreading “a dangerous conspiracy theory” after she tweeted that the Covid virus appeared to have been bioengineered to be less dangerous to some Jewish people.

In a tweet sent on Tuesday afternoon, Beverley Turner supported the idea first popularised by the controversial Democratic presidential hopeful Robert Kennedy Jr that the coronavirus was engineered to target some ethnic groups and spare others.

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