A Guardian article claiming to have found the tweet at the heart of the Allison Pearson police probe falsely identified a post by someone else entirely, GB News has been told.
The liberal newspaper had written how it "believes it has found the post at the centre of the row" - but quoted a tweet by a member of the public with the same name instead.
The post in question, shared by an account named MrsPearson2014_, accuses the Metropolitan Police of "smiling with the Jew haters".
Pearson herself told GB News: "That's not my account".
The post shows a video of Greater Manchester Police officers posing with supporters of Pakistani political party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf.
The Guardian writes that the video - which it called a photograph - "angered" Pearson, despite the account belonging to someone else.
The paper also claims to have spoken to the complainant at the heart of Essex Police's so-called "non-crime hate incident" probe.
It says the complainant is "a former public servant with training in criminal law" and wishes "to stay anonymous, fearing reprisals, especially from far-right elements".
The anonymous complainant told the paper the post by Pearson was "racist and inflammatory".
The complainant continued: "Pearson tweeted something that had nothing to do with Palestine or the London protests: she tweeted a picture of two persons of colour holding a flag of a Pakistani political party standing next to some GMP officers...
"Her description of the two people of colour as Jew haters is racist and inflammatory.
"Each time an influential person makes negative comments about people of colour, I, as a person of colour, see an uptick in racist abuse towards me and the days after that tweet are no different."
The article itself is headlined: "Allison Pearson's 'racist' tweet is at centre of Telegraph's row with police."
It was shared by LBC presenter James O'Brien, who captioned his own tweet: "Oh."
Pearson rebuffed his message, saying: "I did NOT write a racist tweet. Screenshotted."
GB News has approached The Guardian for comment. Essex Police declined to comment.
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The liberal newspaper had written how it "believes it has found the post at the centre of the row" - but quoted a tweet by a member of the public with the same name instead.
The post in question, shared by an account named MrsPearson2014_, accuses the Metropolitan Police of "smiling with the Jew haters".
Pearson herself told GB News: "That's not my account".
The post shows a video of Greater Manchester Police officers posing with supporters of Pakistani political party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf.
The Guardian writes that the video - which it called a photograph - "angered" Pearson, despite the account belonging to someone else.
The paper also claims to have spoken to the complainant at the heart of Essex Police's so-called "non-crime hate incident" probe.
It says the complainant is "a former public servant with training in criminal law" and wishes "to stay anonymous, fearing reprisals, especially from far-right elements".
The anonymous complainant told the paper the post by Pearson was "racist and inflammatory".
The complainant continued: "Pearson tweeted something that had nothing to do with Palestine or the London protests: she tweeted a picture of two persons of colour holding a flag of a Pakistani political party standing next to some GMP officers...
"Her description of the two people of colour as Jew haters is racist and inflammatory.
"Each time an influential person makes negative comments about people of colour, I, as a person of colour, see an uptick in racist abuse towards me and the days after that tweet are no different."
The article itself is headlined: "Allison Pearson's 'racist' tweet is at centre of Telegraph's row with police."
It was shared by LBC presenter James O'Brien, who captioned his own tweet: "Oh."
Pearson rebuffed his message, saying: "I did NOT write a racist tweet. Screenshotted."
GB News has approached The Guardian for comment. Essex Police declined to comment.
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