The Electoral Commission has introduced new rules to tackle election disinformation, with political parties and candidates required to correct false or misleading information within 36 hours.
Political parties and candidates will have 36 hours to publicly retract and correct false or misleading information under new rules introduced by the Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) ahead of the November 4 local government elections.
The Electoral Code of Conduct Countering Disinformation in the Local Government Elections, known as the Disinformation Code, was promulgated on Friday.
The IEC said the Code was aimed at enhancing election integrity and promoting free, fair and orderly local government elections.
“Free and fair elections depend on procedural correctness and credible information that is key to shaping the voters' choices,” the Commission said.
