Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora on Wednesday insisted that social media platforms have to build a safety wall to avoid their misuse to quickly spread the menace of misrepresentation and misinterpretation of facts.
"At times, social media, if not harnessed properly, can have its own implications.
It is a great enabler.
The medium has to be utilised for ECI's SVEEP (Systematic Voters Education and Electoral Participation Programme) campaigns on voter education, enrollment drive, ethical voting and countering misrepresentations about EVMs," Arora said.
He was addressing a press conference at the end of the fourth General Assembly of Association of World Election Bodies (A-WEB) here.
The CEC added, "Social media, ultimately, has to create safety walls - the sooner the better."
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