Elon Musk and Boris Johnson praised GB News after its primetime show Farage outperformed legacy media outlets BBC News and Sky News, drawing 130% and 108% of their audiences, respectively.
The 7pm episode featured journalist Allison Pearson, who recounted being confronted by police on Remembrance Sunday over a year-old tweet allegedly violating the Public Order Act.
Pearson and host Nigel Farage condemned the investigation as an attack on free speech and “thought control.”
Musk labelled the situation “insane,” and Johnson criticised the police’s priorities, calling their actions akin to those of a “woke Securitate.”
Pearson described the experience as humiliating but emphasized her right to free expression, sparking widespread debate on the boundaries of free speech in Britain.
