Submitted on Thursday 17th November 2016
Rejected on Friday 18th November 2016
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: no-action (see below for details)
Initiate a Prevention of Misinformation Commission
A significant number of news articles and social media postings promote hatred or skew political beliefs based on information that is either completely fabricated or presented in such as way as to misinform the reader.
This is having a dire consequence on both individuals and the wider community.
For more information on the problem refer to the following articles,
http://www.vox.com/new-money/2016/11/16/13659840/facebook-fake-news-chart
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/24/tackle-spread-misinformation-online
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2016/11/17/facebook-fake-news-writer-i-think-donald-trump-is-in-the-white-house-because-of-me/?tid=ss_tw
http://www.vox.com/new-money/2016/11/16/13637310/facebook-fake-news-explained
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