This petition was submitted during the 2017-2019 parliament
Rejected petition Make it a criminal offence for Newspapers to mislead the public.
There has been so many stories in the press in the last decade that have influenced peoples thinking, yet have been proven to be totally fabricated. Particularly on subjects of race, religion, immigration. As it is now the papers can say what they like without much consequence. Retraction not enough
More details
https://www.opendemocracy.net/shinealight/adam-wagner/too-little-too-late-as-daily-mail-corrects-bogus-human-rights-splash
http://www.mcb.org.uk/media-misreporting/
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/sun-muslim-problem-investigation-jewish-islamic-ipso-trevor-kavanagh-nazi-propaganda-tabloid-news-uk-a7894231.html
https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/78v3l2/telegraph_admits_in_tiny_retraction_that/
A small retraction printed months later is clearly not enough.
This petition was rejected
Why was this petition rejected?
It’s not clear what the petition is asking the UK Government or Parliament to do.
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