UK regulator fines GB News over former PM Sunak broadcast
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s communication regulator Ofcom has fined right-leaning GB News channel 100,000 pounds ($129,910) for breaking due impartiality rules relating to a programme featuring former Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, it said on Thursday.
Ofcom said the broadcast in February did not include an “appropriately wide range of significant viewpoints” and gave Sunak a “mostly uncontested platform” in the period leading up to the general election in July.
The watchdog noted that GB News was challenging its original breach decision in this case by judicial review, which it was defending. Ofcom said it would not enforce this sanction until those proceedings were concluded.
($1 = 0.7698 pounds)
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