German newspapers need not 'ensure 75 percent of articles are factual or call themselves magazines'
Posts on Facebook and Twitter have shared a claim that newspapers in Germany must guarantee that 75 percent of their articles are factual, and that any newspaper unable to do so must instead refer to itself as a magazine. However, the claim is false. The German government, the German Press Council and media scholars told AFP that there is no such policy or regulation in the
United Kingdom Maja Malik Pascal Juergens Sonja Volkmann Schluck Nadja Wochmer Institute Of Communication
Source: afp.com