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Require political campaign communications to be fact checked before publication

Submitted on Friday 24th June 2016

Rejected on Thursday 30th June 2016

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Require political campaign communications to be fact checked before publication

Petition Details

In order to allow the general populace to make informed decisions in democratic political campaigns, all political campaign communications such as posters, leaflets, other advertising, should be subject to independent peer review and fact checking prior to publication to prevent misinformation

Additional Information

Also, any advertising released that is independently deemed to be incorrect should be retracted with the same visibility as the original advertising.


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This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

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