
GB News has hit out at a report accusing it of “almost obsessive” coverage of Muslims, saying it is “inaccurate and defamatory” and that it was not approached for comment beforehand.
The new report, released by the Muslim Council of Britain’s Centre for Media Monitoring, assessed two years of output from GB News, BBC News and Sky News, finding that the opinion-led station accounted for almost half of all mentions of Muslims among the three.
CfMM said the channel used certain words associated with Muslims — for example Islamism, jihad, mosque, Sharia, prophet, Caliphate and burka — 17,000 times across the period assessed.
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