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After journalist Allison Pearson was visited by police for a “non-crime” X post, GB News asks its members if free speech is under threat.<\/p>\n

Pearson, 64, was visited by officers on Remembrance Sunday last year after making a social media post that was deemed offensive. <\/p>\n

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In her first sit down TV interview, Pearson told GB News: “Because it was Remembrance Sunday I drew myself up and told them [the police officers] we are here today on a special day commemorating hundred of men your age who laid down their lives for the country so that it could be a free country and not live under the jackboot of tyranny.<\/p>\n

“Here you are on Remembrance Sunday, coming to my house in something that I see to be against freedom.”<\/p>\n

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Responding to GB News’ live stream on X, Musk said: “This is insane. Make Orwell Fiction Again!”<\/p>\n

Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson also waded in on Pearson’s “non-crime” incident.<\/p>\n

He said: “This is appalling. How can Starmer\u2019s Britain lecture other countries about free speech when an innocent journalist gets a knock on the door – for a tweet?<\/p>\n

“Our police have their hands full of burglaries and violent crime. They are being forced to behave like a woke Securitate – and it has to stop.”<\/p>\n

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During her interview on GB News, Pearson detailed her next steps when Farage asked about whether she would meet with the Home Secretary.<\/p>\n

She said: “I’m going to probably go in for an interview. The Free Speech Union, which is a brilliant organisation, is helping me, and they’re giving me a solicitor.<\/p>\n

“So if I have to go into the police station and have a voluntary interview. I’ll go in and maybe then we’ll be able to find out what I’m accused of, and then we’ll see how it progresses.”<\/p>\n

Essex Police opened its investigation against the journalist under Section 17 of the Public Order Act 1986, relating to material posted on her X account last year and said it allegedly was “likely or intended to cause racial hatred”.<\/p>\n

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An Essex Police spokesman said: “The report relates to a social media post which was subsequently removed.<\/p>\n

“An investigation is now being carried out under Section 17 of the Public Order Act.”<\/p>\n

However, Pearson complained about police prioritising social media post over other offences, including theft. <\/strong><\/p>\n

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