A controversial website funded by an organisation linked to Britain’s only state-approved press regulator is facing calls to repay a £3,000 grant after it posted a homophobic video online. The Mail on Sunday revealed last year how PINF’s grant had appalled critics, who accused 5Pillars of being a ‘fake news site’. Mr Heawood said last night that PINF would ask 5Pillars to repay the grant, which was part of a Covid emergency fund. Impress launched an investigation into 5Pillars last year following a series of complaints, including claims that content on its website could incite hatred towards LGBT people. Mr Hussain and 5Pillars editor Roshan Muhammed Salih said the Impress judgment was ‘unfair, flawed and an attack on the right of Muslims to express themselves freely within the law’.

Source: Daily Mail May 29, 2021 21:22 UTC