Wolf was suspended from Twitter in 2021 after using it to spread myths about the pandemic, vaccines and lockdown. However, in an interview with Wolf, writer and broadcaster Matthew Sweet pointed out that she had misunderstood “the very precise historical legal term, ‘death recorded’, as evidence of execution, when in fact it indicates the opposite”. Wolf argued that it led to a number of executions of gay men after the last recorded execution for sodomy in 1835. Outrages examined the effect of 19th-century legal changes on the lives of Victorian poets such as John Addington Symonds and argued that the Obscene Publications Act of 1857 marked a turning point in the treatment of gay people. Her most recent book Outrages was pulled and pulped in the US, and corrected in the UK by Wolf’s publisher Virago, after she misread a historical term. Wolf, who came to fame with her book The Beauty Myth in 1990, has been involved in a series of controversies in recent years. The US and Canadian publisher is Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Klein’s book discusses the author’s “doppelganger”, Wolf, whose name and public persona, “are sufficiently similar that many people have confused the two over the years” even though her views are “antithetical to Klein’s own”, according to her UK publisher. Photograph: Penguin pressĬombining “tragicomic memoir, chilling political reportage and piercing cultural analysis”, UK publisher Penguin Press said Klein will look at how “far-right movements feign solidarity with the working class, AI-generated content blurs the line between genuine and spurious and new age wellness entrepreneurs turned anti-vaxxers further scramble our familiar political allegiances”. The BBC has also fallen foul of the issue and was forced to apologize recently when a presenter failed to challenge a vaccine-sceptic cardiologist, who claimed the jabs could cause heart damage.Doppelganger by Naomi Klein. Ofcom received more than 400 claims about Wolf’s comments.Įxamining Covid disinformation has become a major part of Ofcom’s work over the past couple of years. Separately, his former show is being investigated by the regulator following an interview with author Naomi Wolf in which she claimed women were being harmed by Covid vaccines as part of an effort “to destroy British civil society”. Ofcom has not yet said if GB News will be fined over today’s breach. Steyn left GB News last month due to a contract dispute regarding whether he would have to pay Ofcom fines if found liable. GB News defended its presenter, stating that the programs’ “purpose is unmistakably to challenge the status quo and question official narratives” but that it has “at no stage adopted an ‘anti-vax’ approach and that has always been made clear to the audience.” Steyn’s insistence that the results were definitive was found to be in breach of section 2.2 of Ofcom’s Broadcasting Code, and were labeled “potentially harmful and materially misleading” by the regulator. Ofcom, however, said in today’s ruling he had failed to take into account other factors such as the significant differences in age or health of the people in the two groups. Ofcom Raps UKTV For Swearing Gaffe During Daytime Repeat Of 'Casualty'
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