Petition · past parliament

Place a ban on newspapers and media promoting one-sided propaganda.

Rejected 17 signatures

What the petition asks

In the build up to the EU vote newspapers and media promoted political views in the form of propaganda, although both sides of the vote participated most newspapers are owned by one individual that aggressively promoted an agenda. With information that was repeatedly proven false, and swayed a vote.
The evidence is everywhere.

Why it was rejected

There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.

Timeline

26 Jun 2016 Petition opened for signatures
14 Jul 2016 Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 17
Status Rejected
Rejected 14 Jul 2016

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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.