Election Commissions Model Code of Conduct on the social media websites
Posted on: 20/Mar/2014 11:43:27 AM
An Election Commission of India official said that the provisions Provisions of the Model Code of Conduct shall also apply to the campaigning through the internet and the social media websites.
Political advertisements on social media will have to be pre-certified and expenditure on campaigning through the internet will have to be reported.
The EC has asked the political parties to furnish information about their social media accounts.
All legal provisions for the electronic media on the paid news and political advertisements will apply to the campaigns on the social media as well.
Paid news had become a big issue in election management, and to tackle it, the Commission had set up an MCMC in every district of Andhra Pradesh where the voting would take place on April 30 and May 7.
MCMC will give daily reports on all advertising expenditure of the candidates including that on the paid news, if any. The cases of paid news in newspapers/magazines would be forwarded to the Press Council of India, while those in the electronic media will be sent to the national broadcasters association.
