Spokesperson Narayan Prasad Bhattarai said that issues such as false information, propaganda, hate speech, misinterpretation, deep fakes, false sites or accounts, slander or defamation that may be circulating through social media will be monitored and illegal acts will be punished according to the law.
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The Election Commission has stated that it will control negative messages and activities that may flow through social media in the upcoming House of Representatives elections to be held on Falgun 21.
The commission organized a press conference here on Friday and stated that it will monitor false, misleading and negative activities that may flow through social media during the election.
Spokesperson Narayan Prasad Bhattarai said that issues such as false information, propaganda, hate speech, misinterpretation, deep fake (deep deception), false sites or accounts, slander or defamation that may flow through social media will be monitored and illegal activities will be punished according to the law. He informed that a policy has been taken to cooperate with regulatory bodies for this.
The commission stated that it had a dialogue with representatives of social media platform operators Meta and TikTok this week. Correspondence has been written to Meta, TikTok and X (Twitter) for this. The commission stated that the Information Ethics Promotion Unit has started its work under the Information Communication and Coordination Center in the commission. Spokesperson Bhattarai informed that social media monitoring software has been brought into use.
The Commission has also held a coordination meeting with the provincial government and local levels this week to make the February 21 House of Representatives elections a success. Similarly, the Code of Conduct Monitoring Committee meeting has been held this week and further work has been taken forward. The closed list received towards the proportional election system has been verified and correspondence has been sent to the concerned parties.
Orientation training for the Chief Election Officer and Election Officers will be conducted in Kathmandu, Chitwan, Biratnagar and Nepalgunj on December 28 and 29. The Commission informed in a press conference that the training of trainers has been completed to prepare the chief trainers for the training.
The Commission has appointed 77 District Judges as Chief Election Officers in consultation with the Judicial Council. Similarly, in consultation with the Judicial Service Commission, 88 Gazetted Class II officers of the Judicial Service have been appointed as Election Officers with effect from today.
The Chief Electoral Officer and the Election Officer are scheduled to participate in the orientation on Poush 28 and 29 and start work by establishing offices in their respective constituencies from Magh 2. Meanwhile, the commission has completed the printing of sample ballot papers. One million sample ballot papers have been printed for direct and proportional representation. The printing of voter rolls and ballot papers for the proportional representation system has begun.
