Rejected petition Protect Democracy from Fake News, Bots and Trolls with Secure Public Vote Forums

Create a public-contributed discussion forum that is peer-reviewed for
cited and referenced discussion to take place.

In a Public-owned forum, we can ensure that bots and trolls cannot operate by using voter authentication.

Accompanying Opinion Polls allow the now informed Public to vote.

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In response to the Electoral Commission's findings that disinformation via social networks is a significant risk to democracy, we need to protect our democratic process from subversion by providing accurate, factual information alongside voting.

Without such a peer-reviewed repository, voting is vulnerable to Electoral Hacking through social engineering and psychological manipulation. Open, cited discussion provides unbiased facts and citations for the Public to make informed voting decisions.

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Why was this petition rejected?

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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https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/549000

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Date submitted 4 September 2020
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