PETITIONRejectedPetition · petition.parliament.uk

Stop the media repeatedly targeting demographics with a protected characteristic

The UK media has repeatedly and persistently been targetting a number of groups of people who have a protected characteristic for over a decade now. The IPSO will not do anything about this because they cannot see a problem with it..

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Government response threshold (10,000) · 7/10,000

Debate threshold (100,000) · 7/100,000

Petition progress2 events · Dec 2025 – Jan 2026

30 JAN 2026
Petition rejected
no-action
Petitions need to call on the Government or Parliament to take a specific action. We understand that you are concerned about some reporting by the news media, but we're not sure exactly what regulatory framework or offences you'd like the Government or Parliament to introduce. We can also only accept petitions about things that the Government or Parliament are directly responsible for. Decisions about the handling of complaints to IPSO are a matter for IPSO, not the UK Government or Parliament. You could start a new petition explaining clearly what you would like the Government or Parliament to do.
21 DEC 2025
Petition created

Background

Either get IPSO to do their job properly or put some other regulatory body or framework in place to prevent the media from running sometimes dozens of defamatory news stories each week about groups of people that are not only harassing in nature, but are also misleading or objectively wrong in content and, also calculated to get others to hate, abuse or attack these demographics.