UK's "Online Safety Act" Officially grants MSM permission to publish lies

The Guardian has gone to the dogs, but this Off-Guardian has a really wierd paranoid vibe. Have a look at the front page, it is very distopian itself. A very reactionary and ill-considered article.

If you read the article it is not about libel or slander its about "misinformation" which is a new criminal offense in the UK.

So if I publish a lie that isn't slander or libel (doesn't defame a specific person, like if I claim the earth is flat), then I can be sentenced to a year in prison. But if a "recognized news publisher" publishes the same lie they cannot be charged with a crime.