Sentences with phrase «online electioneering»

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«The Honest Ads Act would extend the McCain - Feingold law «electioneering communication» provisions — i.e., TV / radio ads that name a candidate within 30 days of a primary or 60 days of a general election but do not expressly advocate the candidate's election or defeat — to certain online ads,» Ryan said.

And «tweet - ups», like the one attended in February by John Prescott at Manchester town hall, are seeing Labour using the online community to boost electioneering efforts.

The Honest Ads Act does this by expanding the definition of «electioneering communication» to include paid political advertisements online.

Without meaningful action on the part of the FEC or Congress, however, the responsibility of policing online «electioneering» for the foreseeable future may fall on Facebook alone.

The bill as originally proposed was intended to track «electioneering communication» purchased by anyone spending at least $ 10,000 on online ads.

The legislation would require platforms with more than one million users to «maintain a public file of all electioneering communications purchased by a person or group who spends more than $ 10,000 aggregate dollars for online political advertisements.»