By Graham Liver & Lynette Horsburgh

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Ms Duncan told BBC Radio Lancashire how she wanted tougher regulations to stop the spread of misinformation about missing people online.

She has previously described how online trolls accused her of murdering her son during the height of a social media frenzy after he disappeared on the Canary island last June.

She said: “I feel really passionate about getting a change in the law, if it is a change in an existing law or a new law.”

Ms Duncan said she had spoken to MP Kanishka Narayan, the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology about her campaign, and had the backing of her local MP Sarah Smith.

Ms Duncan also highlighted online speculation during the disappearance of Nicola Bulley, also from Lancashire, whose body was found in the River Wyre on 19 February 2023.

She had been missing for about three weeks, during which there was intense social media speculation about her disappearance.

An inquest in June last year found she had died from accidental drowning.

Her partner Paul Ansell described the social media fixation and online obsession with her disappearance as a “monster” that got out of control.