For It to be made a proper offence for newspapers to misinform the public.

Rejected 21 signatures

What the petition asks

There has been so many stories in the press in the last decade that have influenced peoples thinking, yet have been proven to be totally fabricated. Particularly on subjects of race,religion,immigration. As it is now the papers can say what they like without much consequence.

https://www.opendemocracy.net/shinealight/adam-wagner/too-little-too-late-as-daily-mail-corrects-bogus-human-rights-splash
http://www.mcb.org.uk/media-misreporting/
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/sun-muslim-problem-investigation-jewish-islamic-ipso-trevor-kavanagh-nazi-propaganda-tabloid-news-uk-a7894231.html
https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/78v3l2/telegraph_admits_in_tiny_retraction_that/
Stop the hate campaign group

Why it was rejected

It was not clear what the petition asked the UK Government or Parliament to do.

Petitions need to call on the Government or Parliament to take a specific action.

We're not sure exactly what you mean by "it to be made a proper offence for newspapers to misinform the public."

You could start a new petition explaining clearly what you would like the Government or Parliament to do.

Timeline

19 Mar 2018	Petition opened for signatures
26 Mar 2018	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 21

Status Rejected

Rejected 26 Mar 2018

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