The parties should also refrain from posting derogatory content towards women, abstain from using children in campaigns and avoid depicting violence or harm to animals.
The latest direction came against the backdrop of circulation of a “doctored” video of Home Minister Amit Shah allegedly saying that the BJP government would scrap quotas for Dalits, tribals and OBCs.
Congress has also complained against a video by the BJP, which it claims was “communal” in nature and against the party.
In the four-page communication sent to parties, EC said the use of such “manipulated, distorted, edited content” on social media platforms has the potential to “wrongfully sway voter opinions, deepen societal divisions, and erode trust in electioneering process by attacking laid out instrumentalities of the electoral steps in terms of means and material.”Further, it said, the scale of spread of such misinformation has been observed to be dangerously unrestrained due to the availability of the option of “forwarding/re-sharing/ re-posting/ re-tweeting” on social media.
The parties should also refrain from posting derogatory content towards women, abstain from using children in campaigns and avoid depicting violence or harm to animals.
The latest direction came against the backdrop of circulation of a “doctored” video of Home Minister Amit Shah allegedly saying that the BJP government would scrap quotas for Dalits, tribals and OBCs. Congress has also complained against a video by the BJP, which it claims was “communal” in nature and against the party.
In the four-page communication sent to parties, EC said the use of such “manipulated, distorted, edited content” on social media platforms has the potential to “wrongfully sway voter opinions, deepen societal divisions, and erode trust in electioneering process by attacking laid out instrumentalities of the electoral steps in terms of means and material.”
Further, it said, the scale of spread of such misinformation has been observed to be dangerously unrestrained due to the availability of the option of “forwarding/re-sharing/ re-posting/ re-tweeting” on social media.
