Facebook fallout: Election Commission to discuss measures to protect electoral process
The EC's social media cell was also expected to draw up a report on the allegations of data mining to influence voters. CEC OP Rawat had recently said that the poll panel was drafting a media policy that would allow it to monitor content that transgresses the code of conduct and also checks the misuse of the medium for surrogate publicity.
The Election Commission is set to discuss measures it can adopt to protect the electoral process from being compromised by "outside influences". Image source: