CBS faces backlash over 60 Minutes interview with Marjorie Taylor Greene

Far-right, pro-Trump congresswoman uses appearance on flagship current affairs show to defend calling Democrats paedophiles

CBS has come under rhetorical fire after devoting an interview on its flagship current affairs show, 60 Minutes, to Marjorie Taylor Greene, the far-right pro-Trump congresswoman from Georgia who has espoused conspiracy theories and faced censure for threatening behaviour towards Democrats.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the New York progressive congresswoman among those threatened by Greene, told Semafor: “These kinds of extreme and really just unprecedented and dangerous notions are getting platforms, without much pushback or real kind of critical analysis.”