Make it illegal for newspapers to post untrue headlines on Facebook and Twitter

Rejected 12 signatures

What the petition asks

News outlets posting on Facebook BREAKING NEWS with misleading headlines when the truth is in the article should be illegal. E.g. “Now the inbetweeners is axed for being offensive” but acknowledging this isn’t true in the article. Used to ignite hate and fear as people don’t read the full article.

The parliament have a responsibility to create a fair, unbiased and democratic society. Allowing this behaviour to continue is allowing the newspapers to ignite fear and hatred causing unrest and violence. It creates an unnecessary divide between the general public based on misinformation and lies, so they can profit economically and politically. By the parliament allowing this they are agreeing to allow lies to be fed to the general public, and it is about time they took a stand for the people.

Why it was rejected

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

You may wish to sign this petition calling for the same action: Introduce statutory regulation of the media.

Timeline

11 Jun 2020	Petition opened for signatures
29 Jul 2020	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 12

Status Rejected

Rejected 29 Jul 2020

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