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# GB News faces Ofcom scrutiny over anti-LGBTQ+ remarks
- URL: https://www.europeans.today/2025/03/22/gb-news-faces-ofcom-scrutiny-over-anti-lgbtq-remarks/
- Published: 2025-03-22T20:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-03-23T01:25:41.000Z
- Description: Record-breaking 71,582 complaints prompt Ofcom probe into GB News show accused of spreading anti-LGBTQ+ misinformation.
- Author: TODAY
- Tags: UK Media, Latest News, Anti-LGBTQ+, GB News, United Kingdom, Ofcom, Good Law Project

Ofcom has launched an investigation into *GB News* after a presenter linked LGBTQ+ people to paedophilia during its *Headliners* show on 22 January. The claim, widely discredited and denounced [by the High Court](https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Blake-and-Seymour-v-Fox-Judgment.pdf?ref=europeans.today) as “one of the oldest, most pernicious… myths of homophobia”, triggered a public outcry.

*GB News* defends its position as “free speech”, while critics warn it’s risking lives by platforming hate.

A *Good Law Project* [tool](https://goodlawproject.org/thank-you-ofcomcomplaint-end/?ref=europeans.today) enabled mass complaints, resulting in a record-breaking **71,582** submissions—outstripping the [2021 Piers Morgan controversy](https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/mar/09/its-the-end-of-the-piers-show-for-the-man-who-never-knew-when-to-stop?ref=europeans.today). Agustina Oliveri, the campaign group’s head of communications, called the channel a “channel of hatred”, accusing Ofcom of failing to act sooner.

The *Good Law Project* campaign now [targets advertisers](https://action.goodlawproject.org/sky-stop-funding-hate?ref=europeans.today) like *Sky* to cut financial ties. The outcome could redefine the boundaries of UK broadcast regulation.

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### **Sources:**

##### ▪ **Cover:** Dreamstime/[Dejan Ljamić](https://www.dreamstime.com/deshacam%5Finfo?ref=europeans.today).

  
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