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 10,214th most popular petition of all time.

Geography

This petition has a Diversity Rating of 36% (very 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 - Bristol South
• 5 - Stockport
• 5 - Dudley South
• 4 - Haltemprice and Howden
• 4 - Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle
• 4 - Tynemouth
• 4 - Mid Bedfordshire
• 4 - Newark
• 4 - Newcastle upon Tyne East
• 4 - Calder Valley
• 4 - South West Devon
• 4 - Shrewsbury and Atcham
• 4 - Wealden
• 4 - Weston-super-Mare
• 4 - North Herefordshire
• 4 - North East Somerset
• 4 - Batley and Spen
• 4 - Houghton and Sunderland South
• 3 - North West Hampshire
• 3 - Welwyn Hatfield
• 3 - Epping Forest
• 3 - Colchester
• 3 - Dunfermline and West Fife
• 3 - Ellesmere Port and Neston
• 3 - Hertford and Stortford
• 3 - Ipswich
• 3 - Rayleigh and Wickford
• 3 - North Wiltshire
• 3 - North West Durham
• 3 - North Swindon
• 3 - North East Hertfordshire
• 3 - North East Hampshire
• 3 - North Dorset
• 3 - Newbury
• 3 - Middlesbrough
• 3 - Liverpool, West Derby
• 3 - Cardiff South and Penarth
• 3 - Tatton
• 3 - Islington North
• 3 - Sedgefield
• 3 - Broadland
• 3 - Birmingham, Northfield
• 3 - Bracknell
• 3 - Northampton North
• 3 - Beverley and Holderness
• 2 - Lichfield
• 2 - South West Bedfordshire
• 2 - Hove
• 2 - Thirsk and Malton
• 2 - Montgomeryshire
• 2 - Kensington
• 2 - West Dunbartonshire
• 2 - Keighley
• 2 - Delyn
• 2 - Boston and Skegness
• 2 - Washington and Sunderland West
• 2 - Wansbeck
• 2 - North Tyneside
• 2 - Neath
• 2 - Wallasey
• 2 - Wakefield
• 2 - Paisley and Renfrewshire South
• 2 - Hereford and South Herefordshire
• 2 - Hertsmere
• 2 - Hexham
• 2 - North Somerset
• 2 - North Norfolk
• 2 - Bognor Regis and Littlehampton
• 2 - South Cambridgeshire
• 2 - Bishop Auckland
• 2 - Maldon
• 2 - Manchester Central
• 2 - Manchester, Gorton
• 2 - Birmingham, Hodge Hill
• 2 - Mid Derbyshire
• 2 - Newcastle upon Tyne North
• 2 - Mid Norfolk
• 2 - Newcastle upon Tyne Central
• 2 - Southend West
• 2 - Morecambe and Lunesdale
• 2 - Macclesfield
• 2 - Cardiff North
• 2 - Louth and Horncastle
• 2 - North East Bedfordshire
• 2 - Knowsley
• 2 - Leeds East
• 2 - Leicester West
• 2 - Berwick-upon-Tweed
• 2 - Swansea West
• 2 - Stoke-on-Trent North
• 2 - Stoke-on-Trent Central
• 2 - Stockton North
• 2 - Loughborough
• 2 - Newport West
• 2 - Gosport
• 2 - Bristol East
• 2 - Skipton and Ripon
• 2 - Meriden
• 2 - Workington
• 2 - Slough
• 2 - Poole
• 2 - Darlington
• 2 - Dartford
• 2 - Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
• 2 - Wirral West
• 2 - Plymouth, Moor View
• 2 - Coventry North East
• 2 - Reading West
• 2 - Stoke-on-Trent South
• 2 - Camborne and Redruth
• 2 - Buckingham
• 2 - Selby and Ainsty
• 2 - Chatham and Aylesford
• 2 - Rossendale and Darwen
• 2 - Sheffield Central
• 2 - Sherwood
• 2 - Richmond (Yorks)
• 2 - York Outer
• 2 - Cleethorpes
• 2 - Don Valley
• 2 - Eastbourne
• 2 - Norwich North
• 2 - Bolton North East
• 2 - North West Norfolk
• 2 - West Lancashire
• 2 - Fareham
• 2 - Gainsborough
• 2 - Brentford and Isleworth
• 2 - Easington
• 2 - South Basildon and East Thurrock
• 2 - Linlithgow and East Falkirk
• 2 - Dudley North
• 1 - Arfon
• 1 - Pontypridd
• 1 - Sheffield, Heeley
• 1 - South West Surrey
• 1 - South West Wiltshire
• 1 - Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough
• 1 - Islwyn
• 1 - Scarborough and Whitby
• 1 - Caerphilly
• 1 - South West Norfolk
• 1 - Worthing West
• 1 - Vale of Clwyd
• 1 - Somerton and Frome
• 1 - Aberconwy
• 1 - Ogmore
• 1 - Bridgend
• 1 - South West Hertfordshire
• 1 - South Northamptonshire
• 1 - South Derbyshire
• 1 - Sittingbourne and Sheppey
• 1 - Vale of Glamorgan
• 1 - South Staffordshire
• 1 - South Dorset
• 1 - South East Cornwall
• 1 - Solihull
• 1 - Edinburgh West
• 1 - Wokingham
• 1 - Witney
• 1 - Witham
• 1 - Wirral South
• 1 - Wigan
• 1 - Livingston
• 1 - Westminster North
• 1 - Motherwell and Wishaw
• 1 - West Ham
• 1 - Glasgow North
• 1 - West Dorset
• 1 - Amber Valley
• 1 - Wycombe
• 1 - East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow
• 1 - Kilmarnock and Loudoun
• 1 - Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale
• 1 - Dumfries and Galloway
• 1 - Banff and Buchan
• 1 - Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock
• 1 - Argyll and Bute
• 1 - Mid Ulster
• 1 - East Antrim
• 1 - York Central
• 1 - Yeovil
• 1 - Wentworth and Dearne
• 1 - North East Fife
• 1 - Wells
• 1 - Surrey Heath
• 1 - Llanelli
• 1 - Worsley and Eccles South
• 1 - Stourbridge
• 1 - Stone
• 1 - Stevenage
• 1 - Stalybridge and Hyde
• 1 - Stroud
• 1 - St Ives
• 1 - Rhondda
• 1 - St Helens North
• 1 - Tamworth
• 1 - Tewkesbury
• 1 - Wellingborough
• 1 - Weaver Vale
• 1 - Waveney
• 1 - Watford
• 1 - Orkney and Shetland
• 1 - Walsall South
• 1 - Torridge and West Devon
• 1 - Torbay
• 1 - Tiverton and Honiton
• 1 - Thurrock
• 1 - Thornbury and Yate
• 1 - St Albans
• 1 - Filton and Bradley Stoke
• 1 - Crawley
• 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 - Crewe and Nantwich
• 1 - Croydon North
• 1 - Croydon South
• 1 - Feltham and Heston
• 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 - Cheadle
• 1 - Charnwood
• 1 - Central Suffolk and North Ipswich
• 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 - Carlisle
• 1 - Bury South
• 1 - Bury North
• 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 - Fylde
• 1 - Saffron Walden
• 1 - Nottingham South
• 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 - Orpington
• 1 - Oxford East
• 1 - Oxford West and Abingdon
• 1 - Rutland and Melton
• 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 - Milton Keynes North
• 1 - Mid Dorset and North Poole
• 1 - Meon Valley
• 1 - Huddersfield
• 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 - Huntingdon
• 1 - Hyndburn
• 1 - Ilford South
• 1 - Maidstone and The Weald
• 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 - Garston and Halewood

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