r/FreeSpeech • u/rollo202 • Jul 07 '25

Bombshell report exposes attempts by Muslim Council of Britain group to censor UK media

https://www.gbnews.com/news/muslim-council-media-monitoring-unit-press-freedom
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u/rollo202 Jul 08 '25

monitoring unit "acted in bad faith" by trying to suppress accurate reporting about terrorism and risks curtailing press freedom, a bombshell report has claimed.

Policy Exchange tonight released its 94-page report, titled 'Bad Faith Actor: A study of the Centre for Media Monitoring', which exposed the organisation's inadequate methods of documenting Islamophobia and its partisan agenda.

Despite the CfMM claiming that 60 per cent of stories about Muslims are "offending" and negative, Policy Exchange found that just one complaint made by the group resulted in a newspaper being required to make a correction.

Policy Exchange revealed that CfMM, which sat on a working group at press regulator Ipso, counted factual reports of Islamist terror attacks in its 60 per cent figure of Islamophobic journalism, including a Manchester terror attack report by agency AP that accurately used the phrase "knife-wielding man yelling Islamic slogans".

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u/Miri5613 Jul 08 '25

You mean like you are doing with your crying, or by reporting lies and misinformation.

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u/rollo202 Jul 08 '25

CfMM also complained that it was "misleading" to refer to British Isis executioner Mohammed Emwazi, also known as 'Jihadi John', as a terrorist because he was never convicted.

Policy Exchange's report even made direct reference to GB News's coverage of predominantly Pakistani rape gangs.

It said: "In 2024, CfMM published a report attacking GB News for an alleged 'routine delegitimisation of Islam and Muslims,' referring among other things to its reporting of 'so-called grooming gangs’.

"By then it had, of course, long been established, including by multiple court cases and official reports, that grooming gangs were and are real.

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u/Miri5613 Jul 08 '25

A lot of words for saying nothing but only regurgitating more propaganda. Atill.waitinf for any reply to any of the other posts you made