It’s a crime to spread fake news.
The Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS) in a release on Saturday stated that there were legal consequences for spreading fake news after some began circulating on social media after Trinidad and Tobago recorded its first confirmed case of the Covid-1 virus.
The TTPS stated, the Summary Offences Act Chapter 11:02 states that (106) any person who:
(a) sends any message by telephone which is grossly offensive or of an indecent, obscene, or menacing character; or
(b) sends any message by telephone, or any telegram, which he knows to be false, for the purpose of causing annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety to any other person; or
(c) persistently makes telephone calls without reasonable cause and for any such purpose as mentioned above, is liable on summary conviction to a fine of two hundred dollars or to imprisonment for one month.
