Rejected petition Stop fake news and make it illegal to knowingly spread them

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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https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/146612

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Date submitted 11 January 2017
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