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What's the deal with gbnews? (lemm.ee)

submitted 4 months ago by Colour_me_triggered@lemm.ee to c/askuk@feddit.uk

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Ok so I left Britain more than 15 years ago and have been living in Norway, blissfully unaware of what's been happening. I recently went back to visit family, where I notice that my dad's had a bit of a swing to the right, politically speaking. At some point he put on gbnews.

WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK?!?

How popular is this blatant propaganda?

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[–] fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 27 points 4 months ago

It had very poor viewing/listening figures for quite a long time, and was generally seen as a bit of a joke, but they've been growing alarmingly in the last year - though still comparatively low.

If you see a report saying "GB News hits 1 million viewers", note that this was corrected a few days later to "actually it was only 33,000".

So currently, it's generally not trusted or respected, and is kind of seen as a joke, but like UKIP, Brexit, Boris Johnson as Prime Minister, Donald Trump as US President etc, it's a dangerous joke that we should be taking more seriously.