{"id":27641,"date":"2018-10-23T15:18:31","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T09:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=27641"},"modified":"2018-10-23T15:18:31","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T09:48:31","slug":"google-to-help-ec-track-political-ads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/google-to-help-ec-track-political-ads\/","title":{"rendered":"Google to help EC track political ads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/technology\/google-to-help-ec-track-online-political-ads\/article24866654.ece\">Google to help EC track political ads<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>News:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Election Commission to take strong step to address online Political Advertising with help of Google.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong><u>Important Facts:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2. Google will soon be helping the Election Commission (EC) keep tabs on online political advertising.<\/p>\n<p>3. The Election Commission is the nodal body for pre-certification of advertisements of a political nature, released by either an individual or an organization.<\/p>\n<p>4. A committee has been set up in view of the expansion and diversity of media platforms to explore possible modifications in<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Section 126 (election silence) and<\/li>\n<li>Provisions of the Representation of the People Act, 1951.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>5. In the meeting with the committee, Google has proposed to develop a mechanism for:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ensuring pre-certification of political advertisements<\/li>\n<li>Sharing details about the expenditure incurred on its platforms with the authority.<\/li>\n<li>Helping Election Commission to keep track of political advertisements\u00a0and<\/li>\n<li>Ensure that the advertisements are pre-certified by the EC\u2019s Media Certification and Monitoring Committees.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>6. As soon as a person is declared a candidate for any election, all the money spent by him\/her for campaigning gets added as election expenditure.<\/p>\n<p>7. The Commission also asks the candidates to declare their official social media accounts.<\/p>\n<p>8. Google will be authorized, asking the prospective clients, whenever an order is placed, whether they have been pre-certified.<\/p>\n<p>9. This would help the Returning Officers to calculate the election expenditure of individual candidates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google to help EC track political ads News: Election Commission to take strong step to address online Political Advertising with help of Google. Important Facts: 2. Google will soon be helping the Election Commission (EC) keep tabs on online political advertising. 3. The Election Commission is the nodal body for pre-certification of advertisements of a&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/google-to-help-ec-track-political-ads\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Google to help EC track political ads<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704769721},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}