LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s biggest free-to-air broadcaster ITV (ITV.L) came under fire on Tuesday after one of its leading presenters said no one knew whether a conspiracy theory that 5G masts help spread the novel coronavirus was true or not.
FILE PHOTO: A company sign is displayed outside an ITV studio in London, Britain July 27, 2016. REUTERS/Neil Hall/File Photo
Some telecoms masts in Britain were attacked and engineers abused as the conspiracy theory, which scientists, phone companies and the government say is completely untrue and without any basis in fact, spread across social media.
“What I don’t accept is mainstream media immediately slapping that down as not true when they don’t know it’s not true,” Eamonn Holmes, a veteran presenter on ITV, said on ‘This Morning’ on Monday.
“It’s very easy to say it is not true because it suits the state narrative,” he said.
Britain’s media regulator Ofcom said it had received 419 complaints following the…
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