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Stop fake news and make it illegal to knowingly spread them

Submitted on Wednesday 11th January 2017

Rejected on Monday 16th January 2017

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

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Stop fake news and make it illegal to knowingly spread them

Petition Details

During the past year fake news have been used to deceive the public by many political parties, newspapers and the tv around the world for varoius reasons, diminuishing people's trust on democratic values.
We demand that the government bring forwards legislations to make it a criminal offence


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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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