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Does Maryland’s new social media campaign rule go far enough to validate who is posting the political information on social media? Maryland has begun a great new way of identifying political advertisers support of particular politicians. But, this may not do everything that it needs to do in order to validate who is behind the postings or what is the motivation of the poster. If a political poster wished to disguise themselves and pretend to support a particular candidate, he or she could easily tag the advertisement with the legally required statement but still not be affiliated with the campaign they are supporting. This law would need to be broadened to include campaign-assuming responsibility for monitoring or approving any post made in their name. In order to achieve this goal, campaigns would need huge numbers of paid and volunteer team members just to monitor social media. Otherwise, social media, such as Facebook and Twitter, would need to have to take more responsibility for the IP addresses they allow to advertise on their platforms. Since this is a new legal development, it will need to be fine-tuned in order to protect the public from scammers.
Solution
With the emergence of social media networking being used to advertising in every field, the same has been done by the political advertisers. With this grew the forgery in the posts that were made in the name of political parties. So Maryland levied this law in which the political advertisers will have to identify their political campaign material before posting it on social media and can post it following set rules and guidelines.
In the above matter it is mentioned that these rules will not eradicate the issue of false advertising totally as the political poster can be disguised and pretend to support a particular candidate. Tagging the advertisement with a legally required statement can be done even though they may not be affiliated with the campaign they are showing support for. To overcome this forgery ways will have to be found out to monitor and approve any post made in the name of a candidate or party by the party or candidates. For this special team members will have to be hired to keep a monitoring eye on the posts on social media. Also the social media can help by keeping a track of all the IP addresses they allow for the advertisements done ussing their platforms. These steps are essential to be taken in the political advertising campaigns as they will help erasing the false advertising in the names of political parties and make social media a trusted and genuine platform for such advertising.
