Elections: Disinformation

Part of Electoral Commission Committee – in the House of Commons at on 23 May 2024.

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Photo of Rachel Hopkins Rachel Hopkins Labour, Luton South

The commission’s role is to ensure the financing of campaigns is transparent; it does not have a role in regulating the content of election campaign material, such as by preventing the use of deepfakes. The commission has highlighted that if additional regulatory responsibility for campaign material were given to a UK regulator, these powers would need careful consideration. Regulating the content of campaign material would require a new legal framework; the commission does not have experience or expertise of such a framework and believes such work would be better managed by other organisations.