Criminalise the publication of unfounded false statements by the media

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Daily and Total Signatures by Date

Popularity

This petition has 570 signatures in total, with signatories from 330 constituencies. That makes it the 9,034th most popular petition of all time.

Geography

This petition has a Diversity Rating of 36% (low) and a Local Issue Rating of 29% (high).

Signatures by Constituency

• 9 - Arundel and South Downs
• 8 - Kingston upon Hull North
• 7 - East Devon
• 6 - Kingston upon Hull East
• 5 - Stockport
• 5 - Bristol South
• 5 - Dudley South
• 4 - Tynemouth
• 4 - Mid Bedfordshire
• 4 - Newcastle upon Tyne East
• 4 - Calder Valley
• 4 - Wealden
• 4 - Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle
• 4 - South West Devon
• 4 - Weston-super-Mare
• 4 - Newark
• 4 - Houghton and Sunderland South
• 4 - North East Somerset
• 4 - Shrewsbury and Atcham
• 4 - Batley and Spen
• 4 - Haltemprice and Howden
• 4 - North Herefordshire
• 3 - North East Hampshire
• 3 - Broadland
• 3 - Newbury
• 3 - North Dorset
• 3 - Dunfermline and West Fife
• 3 - Ellesmere Port and Neston
• 3 - Ipswich
• 3 - Islington North
• 3 - Epping Forest
• 3 - Welwyn Hatfield
• 3 - Hertford and Stortford
• 3 - Liverpool, West Derby
• 3 - Colchester
• 3 - Middlesbrough
• 3 - Tatton
• 3 - North East Hertfordshire
• 3 - Cardiff South and Penarth
• 3 - Northampton North
• 3 - Rayleigh and Wickford
• 3 - North West Hampshire
• 3 - Birmingham, Northfield
• 3 - North Wiltshire
• 3 - North West Durham
• 3 - Beverley and Holderness
• 3 - North Swindon
• 3 - Bracknell
• 3 - Sedgefield
• 2 - Kensington
• 2 - South Cambridgeshire
• 2 - South Basildon and East Thurrock
• 2 - Slough
• 2 - Poole
• 2 - Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
• 2 - Keighley
• 2 - Plymouth, Moor View
• 2 - Reading West
• 2 - Sherwood
• 2 - Thirsk and Malton
• 2 - Wallasey
• 2 - Wakefield
• 2 - Rossendale and Darwen
• 2 - Hereford and South Herefordshire
• 2 - Selby and Ainsty
• 2 - Hertsmere
• 2 - Hexham
• 2 - Sheffield Central
• 2 - Richmond (Yorks)
• 2 - Hove
• 2 - Skipton and Ripon
• 2 - Knowsley
• 2 - Leeds East
• 2 - Leicester West
• 2 - Mid Derbyshire
• 2 - Mid Norfolk
• 2 - North West Norfolk
• 2 - Southend West
• 2 - Morecambe and Lunesdale
• 2 - Newcastle upon Tyne Central
• 2 - North Tyneside
• 2 - Newcastle upon Tyne North
• 2 - North Somerset
• 2 - North East Bedfordshire
• 2 - South West Bedfordshire
• 2 - Bolton North East
• 2 - Meriden
• 2 - Manchester, Gorton
• 2 - Stoke-on-Trent South
• 2 - Lichfield
• 2 - Stoke-on-Trent North
• 2 - Stoke-on-Trent Central
• 2 - Stockton North
• 2 - Norwich North
• 2 - Loughborough
• 2 - Louth and Horncastle
• 2 - Macclesfield
• 2 - Maldon
• 2 - Manchester Central
• 2 - North Norfolk
• 2 - Wansbeck
• 2 - Cardiff North
• 2 - Birmingham, Hodge Hill
• 2 - Wirral West
• 2 - Don Valley
• 2 - Delyn
• 2 - Dudley North
• 2 - Montgomeryshire
• 2 - Neath
• 2 - Easington
• 2 - Boston and Skegness
• 2 - Dartford
• 2 - Bognor Regis and Littlehampton
• 2 - Swansea West
• 2 - Bishop Auckland
• 2 - Newport West
• 2 - Workington
• 2 - Cleethorpes
• 2 - York Outer
• 2 - Darlington
• 2 - Berwick-upon-Tweed
• 2 - Brentford and Isleworth
• 2 - West Lancashire
• 2 - Gosport
• 2 - Buckingham
• 2 - Gainsborough
• 2 - Camborne and Redruth
• 2 - Linlithgow and East Falkirk
• 2 - Coventry North East
• 2 - Washington and Sunderland West
• 2 - Chatham and Aylesford
• 2 - Fareham
• 2 - Bristol East
• 2 - Eastbourne
• 2 - West Dunbartonshire
• 2 - Paisley and Renfrewshire South
• 1 - South West Norfolk
• 1 - South East Cornwall
• 1 - South West Hertfordshire
• 1 - Llanelli
• 1 - South Staffordshire
• 1 - Orkney and Shetland
• 1 - Livingston
• 1 - South Northamptonshire
• 1 - Motherwell and Wishaw
• 1 - Rhondda
• 1 - Caerphilly
• 1 - Islwyn
• 1 - Vale of Glamorgan
• 1 - Dumfries and Galloway
• 1 - Sheffield, Heeley
• 1 - Tewkesbury
• 1 - Arfon
• 1 - North East Fife
• 1 - Pontypridd
• 1 - Sittingbourne and Sheppey
• 1 - Ogmore
• 1 - South Derbyshire
• 1 - Aberconwy
• 1 - South Dorset
• 1 - Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough
• 1 - Vale of Clwyd
• 1 - Somerton and Frome
• 1 - Solihull
• 1 - Bridgend
• 1 - Scarborough and Whitby
• 1 - Walsall South
• 1 - West Ham
• 1 - Tamworth
• 1 - Surrey Heath
• 1 - Westminster North
• 1 - Stroud
• 1 - Wigan
• 1 - Stourbridge
• 1 - Wirral South
• 1 - Witham
• 1 - West Dorset
• 1 - Thornbury and Yate
• 1 - Thurrock
• 1 - Watford
• 1 - Waveney
• 1 - Weaver Vale
• 1 - Wellingborough
• 1 - Wells
• 1 - Torridge and West Devon
• 1 - Torbay
• 1 - Tiverton and Honiton
• 1 - Wentworth and Dearne
• 1 - Stone
• 1 - Witney
• 1 - Wokingham
• 1 - Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock
• 1 - Banff and Buchan
• 1 - St Albans
• 1 - Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale
• 1 - South West Wiltshire
• 1 - East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow
• 1 - Edinburgh West
• 1 - Glasgow North
• 1 - Kilmarnock and Loudoun
• 1 - St Helens North
• 1 - Argyll and Bute
• 1 - Mid Ulster
• 1 - Worsley and Eccles South
• 1 - Worthing West
• 1 - Wycombe
• 1 - Stevenage
• 1 - Yeovil
• 1 - Stalybridge and Hyde
• 1 - York Central
• 1 - St Ives
• 1 - East Antrim
• 1 - South West Surrey
• 1 - Saffron Walden
• 1 - Feltham and Heston
• 1 - Coventry South
• 1 - Copeland
• 1 - Congleton
• 1 - Colne Valley
• 1 - City of Chester
• 1 - Cities of London and Westminster
• 1 - Chorley
• 1 - Chippenham
• 1 - Chichester
• 1 - Chesterfield
• 1 - Chelsea and Fulham
• 1 - Cheadle
• 1 - Crawley
• 1 - Crewe and Nantwich
• 1 - Croydon North
• 1 - Faversham and Mid Kent
• 1 - Exeter
• 1 - Erith and Thamesmead
• 1 - Enfield, Southgate
• 1 - East Yorkshire
• 1 - Ealing North
• 1 - Dover
• 1 - Doncaster North
• 1 - Dewsbury
• 1 - Devizes
• 1 - Derbyshire Dales
• 1 - Croydon South
• 1 - Charnwood
• 1 - Central Suffolk and North Ipswich
• 1 - Carlisle
• 1 - Bexleyheath and Crayford
• 1 - Bexhill and Battle
• 1 - Bermondsey and Old Southwark
• 1 - Beckenham
• 1 - Bath
• 1 - Basingstoke
• 1 - Barrow and Furness
• 1 - Barnsley East
• 1 - Barnsley Central
• 1 - Banbury
• 1 - Aylesbury
• 1 - Ashford
• 1 - Birkenhead
• 1 - Birmingham, Ladywood
• 1 - Birmingham, Yardley
• 1 - Bury South
• 1 - Bury North
• 1 - Amber Valley
• 1 - Broxtowe
• 1 - Broxbourne
• 1 - Bromley and Chislehurst
• 1 - Bridgwater and West Somerset
• 1 - Braintree
• 1 - Bradford East
• 1 - Bootle
• 1 - Bolton West
• 1 - Blackley and Broughton
• 1 - Ashfield
• 1 - Filton and Bradley Stoke
• 1 - Rutland and Melton
• 1 - Nottingham East
• 1 - North Warwickshire
• 1 - North Shropshire
• 1 - North East Derbyshire
• 1 - North East Cambridgeshire
• 1 - North Devon
• 1 - Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford
• 1 - Newton Abbot
• 1 - Newcastle-under-Lyme
• 1 - Mitcham and Morden
• 1 - Milton Keynes South
• 1 - Milton Keynes North
• 1 - Nottingham South
• 1 - Orpington
• 1 - Oxford East
• 1 - Runnymede and Weybridge
• 1 - Romford
• 1 - Rochester and Strood
• 1 - Rochdale
• 1 - Richmond Park
• 1 - Redcar
• 1 - Pudsey
• 1 - Portsmouth North
• 1 - Poplar and Limehouse
• 1 - Peterborough
• 1 - Pendle
• 1 - Oxford West and Abingdon
• 1 - Mid Dorset and North Poole
• 1 - Meon Valley
• 1 - Maidstone and The Weald
• 1 - Horsham
• 1 - Hornchurch and Upminster
• 1 - Hitchin and Harpenden
• 1 - Hazel Grove
• 1 - Harrow East
• 1 - Harrogate and Knaresborough
• 1 - Hampstead and Kilburn
• 1 - Great Grimsby
• 1 - Gravesham
• 1 - Gillingham and Rainham
• 1 - Gedling
• 1 - Garston and Halewood
• 1 - Huddersfield
• 1 - Huntingdon
• 1 - Hyndburn
• 1 - Luton North
• 1 - Liverpool, Wavertree
• 1 - Liverpool, Walton
• 1 - Liverpool, Riverside
• 1 - Lincoln
• 1 - Lewisham East
• 1 - Leigh
• 1 - Kingswood
• 1 - Kettering
• 1 - Jarrow
• 1 - Islington South and Finsbury
• 1 - Ilford South
• 1 - Fylde

This petition was submitted under the Parliamentary boundaries prior to June 2024, so the names may not be current constituency names

Signatures by Region

• 73 - South East
• 72 - Yorkshire and The Humber
• 69 - South West
• 67 - East of England
• 66 - North West
• 46 - West Midlands
• 45 - North East
• 37 - East Midlands
• 32 - London
• 26 - Wales
• 22 - Scotland
• 2 - Northern Ireland

Signatures by Country

• 568 - United Kingdom
• 1 - Spain
• 1 - Portugal