The Office of Communications in the United Kingdom (Ofcom), has sanctioned religious channel, Loveworld, owned by Nigerian Pastor, Chris Oyakhilome, for breaching the country’s broadcasting code by disseminating misinformation on COVID-19, fines the station £125,000 (N65.6m).
According to the agency, on December 1 2020, Loveworld aired a 29-hour programme called the Global Day of Prayer, during which claims were made about the COVID-19. These claims included the notion that the outbreak was ‘planned’, that the ‘sinister’ vaccine can be used to implant ‘nanochips’ that can control and cause harm to members of the public and the debunked theory that the virus was somehow caused by 5G. The agency said they continued to air it despite previous warnings.
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