Updates on social media tech faux information

BJP Facebook pages providing freebies to vote for BJP:

Facebook&x27’s political ads library indicates that a pro-BJP Facebook page &x27; My First Vote For Modi’ spent the most on political ads – Rs 46.6 lakh in one week from March 17 to March 23.

" Alt News found that ‘My First Vote For Modi’, developed three months before the approaching elections, has been luring the electorate with “appealing chocolates” towards a pledge to vote for Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The range of candies supplied through the web page includes badges, bags, T-shirts, cellphone covers, caps, etc. “Pledge your first vote for PM Modi for the higher India and win exciting goodies,” examine the ads."

Wait for it: all of those products are also available for sale on PM Modi’s official website as part of the NaMo merchandise, and the PM has even marketed some of these merchandise on his Twitter account.

MediaNama had mentioned earlier that the Election Commission does not have a policy for “influencer campaigns” that are “fan pages” now not officially related to any political birthday party but with ad spend running in lakhs:

" Co-ordinated paid political messaging should qualify as advertising and promotions. Platforms like Twitter have failed miserably (or no longer even tried to incorporate) campaigns that make political speeches and candidates trend. How does the Election Commission, or even the systems that have promised transparency to political expenditure online?"

Read more on the ECI&x27’s policy on social media and elections here.

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