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People’s deputies propose to give to the National Council of Television and Radio Broadcasting of Ukraine the right to punish the Media for denying Russian aggression and spreading fake news. The deputy from the Petro Poroshenko Bloc (BPP) Grigoriy Shwerk told this while being aired at one of the TV channels, the press service of the BPP reported.
According to Shwerk, his colleagues from the parliamentary Committee on Freedom of Speech and Information Policy have prepared and submitted to the Verkhovna Rada a draft law [No. 9068] on countering information aggression and spreading knowingly unreliable information.
The Deputy told that the draft law proposes to give to the National Council expanded rights and opportunities to counteract the spread of fake information.
At the same time, the draft law increases the responsibility for broadcasters [up to 25% of the amount of the license fee, without the sanction in the form of a warning], for TV broadcasting produced after August 1, 1991, which contain the popularization or propaganda of the organs of the aggressor state, justify or recognize as lawful the occupation of the territory of Ukraine; the responsibility is introduced for providing the false information in documents for obtaining a license, as well as in the ownership structure of broadcasters and providers.
As The Journalist reported, National Council banned broadcasting of RTVI channel for half a year due to propaganda content.
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