These days, our news ecosystem is playing host to an amplified form of harmful bliss called Fake news which is apparently as old as journalism itself. Fake news is bliss because more people are adept to consume and pleasure in it as it feeds their human sensuality which sometimes presents as momentary urges to give or receive a rose or rogue tinted version of a story. Many people are innocent consumers of fake news which is why it spreads faster than real news. Research has shown that the truth takes approximately six times longer than fake news to reach people thereby underlining the fatal attractiveness of fake news. It is difficult to find any major story or event that can resist the drive or manipulation of a lethal dose of false information or news even when there is no clear legal definition in Uganda, of what fake news is or is not. I believe this obtains courtesy of an often subjective test of some fake news which has also stained supposedly official...
General law : a law that is unrestricted as to time, is applicable throughout the entire territory subject to the power of the legislature that enacted it, and applies to all persons in the same class —called also general act, general statute