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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Tackle 'hate campaign' during polls: Ex-CECs to EC -Bharti Jain

Tackle 'hate campaign' during polls: Ex-CECs to EC -Bharti Jain

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published Published on May 22, 2018   modified Modified on May 22, 2018
-The Times of India

NEW DELHI: Concerned over hate campaigns and defamatory attacks in social media that have come to dominate political discourse during elections, eight former chief election commissioners (CECs) on Monday suggested that the Election Commission tackle them at source by persuading sites such as Twitter and Facebook to block them “in public interest”.

Alternatively, they suggested, the poll panel could engage with the parties to convince them to practise self-regulation on hateful propaganda. During a two-hour meeting with the former CECs and one ex-election commissioner, organised by the EC to elicit their suggestions on issues of concern like growing use of money-power, use of media and social media for hateful propaganda and anomalies in electoral rolls.

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The Times of India, 22 May, 2018, https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/tackle-hate-campaign-during-polls-ex-cecs-to-ec/articleshow/64264765.cms?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&ut


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