Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
TRIPLE DOSE OF VACCINE TRIPE
Evangelical Christian TV station Loveworld was fined £125,000 last month by Ofcom for broadcasting fake news about coronavirus.
It was the second time the station had been hauled up by the regulator during the pandemic.
So what did Loveworld do? Carry on regardless seems to be the answer.
Last month’s ruling came after the station’s founder, Pastor Chris Oyakhilome of the Christ Embassy church, suggested that vaccines contained nanochips to control people as part of a “New World Order” conspiracy.
The same series of programmes, called Global Day of Prayer, included claims that the pandemic was caused by 5G technology, face masks posed health hazards and quarantine facilities were comparable to life in Nazi concentration camps.
Loveworld told Ofcom that it was “anxious to remedy any issues”, but since then two shows featuring presenters James Cordwell and Christian Kitoko have spouted more alarmist and unfounded nonsense.
Cordwell claimed the vaccine “could either kill you or just give you an antibody reaction” depending on “what your body is made up of, what your character is, your spirit, your feeling”.
Later he said: “There’s more information comes out every day that older people are dying as a result of taking the shot.”
Kitoko claimed: “The vaccine is not working at all.”
The station must now broadcast a summary of the Ofcom ruling that these were “materially misleading and potentially harmful statements”, while the regulator considers imposing additional sanctions.