New Delhi:
The Election Fee (EC) on Monday directed political events to take away faux content material from their social media platforms inside three hours of such content material being dropped at their discover.
That is a part of directives issued by the ballot panel to political events for accountable and moral use of social media in election campaigning to make sure a stage taking part in subject for all stakeholders after taking cognisance of sure violations by them.
Just lately, deepfake movies that includes Union Dwelling Minister Amit Shah, Congress chief Rahul Gandhi and actors Aamir Khan and Ranveer Singh posted on sure social media handles have been taken down and felony complaints have been filed.
The EC additionally warned the events in opposition to misuse of synthetic intelligence-based instruments to create deepfakes that distort info or propagate misinformation and emphasised the necessity to uphold the integrity of the electoral course of.
“Taking cognizance of sure violations of MCC and the extant authorized provisions by Political Events/their representatives whereas utilizing social media for election campaigning, the Fee in the present day has issued instructions to political events for accountable and moral use of social media in election campaigning to make sure stage taking part in subject amongst all stakeholders,” a EC assertion stated.
“The events have been directed to promptly take away any such content material inside three hours of bringing it to their discover, warn the particular person accountable of their get together reporting illegal info,” it stated.
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 on Monday directed political parties to remove fake content from their social media platforms within three hours of such content being brought to their notice.){kind=link}