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π¨ GB "News" presenter Alex Armstrong and disinformation super-spreader Bernadette Spofforth have apologised and will pay damages to a Green party Leeds City councillor Mothin Ali after wrongly suggesting he participated in a riot in Harehills.
Mothin Ali attended the riots in 2024 to assist police and appeal for calm but posts on social media accused him of taking part in the rioting, the High Court heard on Friday.
Ali sued GB News presenter Alex Armstrong and social media commentator Bernadette Spofforth for defamation over posts on @X, formerly Twitter, but they have now apologised and have agreed to pay "substantial damages".
Ms Spofforth rose to prominence after being arrested for sharing a fake name and false information about the perpetrator of the #Southport knife attack online but did not face any charges.
The riots in Harehills, Leeds, involved widespread disorder and violent confrontations between local residents and police officers.
Appearing at the High Court in London on Friday 16 October, Samantha Thompson, representing Mr Armstrong and Ms Spofforth, said the pair "apologise to the claimant for the serious harm to his reputation and his distress".
The court heard Mr Armstrong published two posts viewed more than 3.1 million times while Ms Spofforthβs post was viewed 216,000 times.
Mr Armstrongβs second post suggested Mr Ali had sought to dishonestly distance himself from the rioting.
Reading a statement in court agreed between Mr Ali and Mr Armstrong, Axel Landin, representing Mr Ali, said that a senior police officer had requested the councillorβs assistance at the riots to help quell unrest.
He said Mr Ali "attended the scene, appealed for calm, acted as a liaison between police and the community, escorted members of the public away from danger and put out fires himself."
Mr Landin said the allegations were republished by others, causing Mr Ali to be stopped on the street on numerous occasions "forcefully and in strong language".
He said: "He has also suffered vile racist abuse online. This has caused the claimant significant harm, upset, distress and embarrassment."
In a statement outside court, Mr Ali said: "While buses burned, I stayed there to limit the damage.
"To limit the harm to my community and for my service to my community, I was not only accused of rioting, but something I take even more seriously: my honesty was brought into question."
He said he had been on the scene "wrestling pallets out of peopleβs hands, pulling bins from fires and rallying the community to gather water to put out the fires".
Mr Ali said his family lived in fear after the social media posts and his car was damaged.
He added: "Black and brown public figures not only do not always get the recognition deserved and more than earned, but they get a level of scrutiny and smears far greater than their counterparts."
GB News presenter forced to pay 'substantial' damages to Leeds councillor over riot claims
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Every councillor reform UK has lost except itβs the Star Wars introβ¦
Reform UK Councillors Gone: Updated
Raymond Dunning (Tameside MBC) is now an Independent.
β‘οΈ Kicked Out
Brian Black (Kent CC)
Oliver Bradshaw (Kent CC)
Paul Thomas (Kent CC)
Bob Ford (Kent CC)
Bill Barratt (Kent CC)
Ed Hill (Devon CC)
James Regan (Essex CC)
Mark Broadhurst (Doncaster CC)
Paul Bean (Durham CC)
Adam Smith (West Northants C)
Daniel Taylor (Kent CC)
Nicole Brooke (Northumberland CC)
Patrick Lambert (Northumberland CC)
Maxine Fothergill (Kent CC)
Ian Cooper (Staffordshire CC)
Edward Harris (Warwickshire CC)
Isabella Kemp (Kent CC)
Aaron Roy (Hartlepool BC)
Jay Cooper (Sefton MBC)
Caroline Gladwin (Isle of Wight C)
Robert Hanson (Sheffield)
Danielle Cavanagh (Gateshead C)
Daniel Astley (Newcastle C)
Daniel Rollinson (Walsall C)
β‘οΈ Resigned Independent
Nicola Brown (Doncaster CC) Ind
Christopher Marriott (Doncaster CC) Ind
Chris Large (Staffordshire CC) Ind
Lynn Dean (Staffordshire CC) Ind
Robin Perry (Walsall C) Ind
Alan Dennison (Pembrokeshire CC) Ind
Kathryn Shaw (West Northants C) Ind
Joanne Blythe (West Northants C) Ind
Andrew Barry (Torfaen CBC) Ind
Todd Ferguson (North Ayrshire C) Ind
Roger Tarrant (Cornwall CC) Ind
Susanne Desmonde (Cornwall CC) Ind
Nick Farmer (Wakefield C) Ind
Jo Monk (Worcestershire CC) Ind
Ashley Monk (Worcestershire CC) Ind
Matthew Jones (Worcestershire CC) Ind
Jamie Hanlon (Cornwall CC) Ind
Jasmine Fox (Durham CC) Ind
Steven Lewis (Wakefield C) Ind
Rosemary Trollope-Bellew (South Kesteven DC) Ind
Susan Maxfield (Kirklees C) Ind
Rebecca Waters (Birmingham C) Ind
Steven Deakin (Cannock Chase C) Ind
Joe Garner (North Northants), Ind
Bella Simon (Walsall), Ind
James Fletcher (Luton), Ind
Glenn Gibbins (Sunderland), Ind
Alex Barr (South Tyneside), Ind
Billy Burke (Trafford C), Ind
Lawrence Davies (Swindon C), Ind
Carol Ney (Plymouth C), Ind
Tanya Brasted (NE Lincolnshire C), Ind
Robbie Withey (Aberdeenshire), Ind
Mark Hill (Chorley), Ind
Grace Stickland (Plymouth), Ind
Jonathan Millard (Blaenau Gwent), Ind
Dawn Saunders (Durham), Ind
Mark Hill (Chorley DC), Ind
Lyndsey Fox (Durham CC), Ind
Paul Sexton (Durham CC), Ind
Nicole Brown (Durham CC), Ind
Chris Perera (Essex CC), Ind
Marcus Barr (Somerset), Ind
Brian Smith (North Tyneside), Ind
Dan Bradley (East Sussex CC), Ind
Jim McIlroy (West Surrey CC), Ind
Alan Feeney (Birmingham City C), Ind
Chris Whelan (Solihull Council), Ind
William Shaw (Doncaster Council), Ind
David Dresser (Leeds Council), Ind
Paula-Jane Thackray (Leeds Council), Ind
Dean Miller (LB Bromley), Ind
Raymond Dunning (Tameside MBC), Ind
β‘οΈ Defected
Amelia Randall (Kent CC) Rest
John Roddy (Warrington BC) Con
Peter Colley (Hertfordshire CC) Rest
Dean Burns (Kent CC) Rest
Jack Goncalvez (North Northants C) Rest
Charles Whitford (Leicestershire CC) Rest
Luke Cooper (Warwickshire CC) Rest
Scott Cameron (Warwickshire CC) Rest
Kieran Mishchuck (Kent CC) Rest
Alistair Hendry (Somerset CC) Con
Graham Eardley (Walsall C) Rest
Owain Clatworthy (Bridgend CBC) Rest
Cain Parkinson (Lincolnshire CC) Con
Brandon Dodd (Glamorgan C) Rest
Charlotte Kelly (Staffordshire CC) Con
Robbie Lammas (Medway C) Con
Dan Glover (Warwickshire CC) Rest
Rob Aitkenhead (Warwickshire CC) Rest
Leon Graham (Lancashire CC) Con
Cameron Emery (West Northants C) Rest
David Hoey (Solihull MBC) Con
Karl Perks (Worcestershire CC), Con
Bruce Craze (Cornwall), Res
Rhys Carr (Wakefield C), SDP
Mark Hadfield (Plymouth CC), Res
Andrew Crumplin (Plymouth CC), Res
Nigel Swales (Lancashire CC), Lab
Robert Hanson (Sheffield), Chartist Reform
Mick Lee (Sheffield), Chartist Reform
Andrew Southall (Dudley MBC), Res
Michael Rees (Gloucestershire CC), Res
Cathy Gibbon (Buckinghamshire CC), Con
β‘οΈ Suspended
Dave Rowan (Kirklees C)
Jacob Padget (Wakefield C)
Matthew Wallens (Staffordshire CC)
Dean Robertson (Litchfield City)
Bradley Thompson (Essex CC)
β‘οΈ Disqualified
Andy Osborn (Cambridgeshire CC)
John Allen (Northumberland CC)
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Elon Musk flips a vehicle upside down and everyone claps and cheers. But when I do it, suddenly I'm "recklessly endangering children" and "unfit to be a school bus driver".
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We have self-driving taxis, rockets that land themselves, and now cars doing backflips.
Meanwhile, millions of people believe vaccines cause autism, chemtrails are real, and scientists are part of a global conspiracy.
Think about that.
Weβve taught machines to do things we once thought impossible.
But we still havenβt taught humans to distinguish evidence from nonsense.
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Omg you guys, it's true. Ilhan Omar came here on a student visa, then quit school and just started working. Total immigration fraud, blatant.
Oh wait, that wasn't Ilhan, that was Elon.
Transvision Vamp and @THEWENDYJAMES you are amazing!!! I didn't get to see you first time around, but wow, totally blown away tonight, best band I've seen @CambJunction for a long time!
Mad respect to @THEWENDYJAMES for the shout out to the sound and lighting team @CambJunction I don't think I've ever seen a band have that level of appreciation and respect for the crew!
Big shout out to the support band Yee Loi instagram.com/theyeeloi/ who were also fantastic, I hope you come back as the main act @CambJunction soon, you were awesome!
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I'm the only Jewish leader of a political party.
I'm a victim of Antisemitism every day and I've made it clear Jewish people are welcome in my party.
You're a Prime Minister who arms a genocide and locks pensioners up for opposing it.
Andy Burnham rules out any partnership between Labour and the Green Party due to their controversial motion declaring "Zionism is racism".
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Youβre laughing. Your uncle in the Rochester, NY suburbs just lost all of his online βfriendsβ in a drone strike, and youβre laughing.
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Russia lost data centers - MAGA lost its best and brightest.
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You don't even understand the damage Zelensky did to Republicans midterm messaging by taking out that Russian bot farm.
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Russian bot traffic has dropped to nearly 0 after Ukraine struck a Yandex data center in Vladimir, Russia
"Name the street - the city is easy!"..
Bussssy Mc Bus Street
WHERE IN SCOTLAND?
Where is this?
Name the street - the city is easy!
This is part of an image that appears somewhere on Undiscovered Scotland. Please reply with your answers. We'll award kudos to the first correct response before posting the next in the series tomorrow.
ALT Today's 'Where in Scotland' image. It is a squarish image showing a view up a broad street in a city. The central reservation extends up the centre of the frame and carries poles which in turn support electric wires. On the left is an Edinburgh tram, while on the right are buses coming towards the viewer and parked cars. There are buildings on both sides of the street and there is higher ground in the distance. The scene is in sunlight.
If only their was some kind of sign Zelenskiy is doing a good job and Russia are suffering....
President Trump said Ukraine needs 'a new leader who can make a deal,' criticizing President Zelenskiy for continuing to hit Russian refineries reut.rs/4hQBb6J
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President Trump said Ukraine needs 'a new leader who can make a deal,' criticizing President Zelenskiy for continuing to hit Russian refineries reut.rs/4hQBb6J
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Blood is thicker than water but maple syrup is thicker than blood.
Technically, pancakes are more important than family.