Truth Tracker: Are political ads on WeChat in violation of Canada's election laws?

Similarly, the ad says it was "authorized by the official agent for the Conservative Party of Canada.” However, the Conservatives would not confirm whether it was responsible for the ad.requires social media platforms to create a registry of all digital ads

WeChat -- used by more than one billion Chinese-speaking users around the world and an estimated one million Canadians -- has not set up one of these registries., Elections Canada spokesperson Natasha Gauthier confirmed that the agency does monitor activity on WeChat and has seen paid election ads running on the app.

But concerns about WeChat stem far beyond its lack of ad registry, even by those who use the app for campaign purposes. “Even if there is discussion in a group about politics the posts are sometimes taken down. You have to proceed very cautiously to debunk things. It’s a very challenging platform.” “The information people receive on WeChat or Chinese-developed social media is very limited and very filtered. And only those government approved messages will be able to get through.”

Are all the cons hate and untruthful ads on t v a violation? I am so sick of seeing them they are a turnoff to the Conservative party.

It will be considered in violation only if it benefits someone other than the LPC. That’s how it works here now...dontchaknow

Where had Ad Standards Canada been during this whole campaign? You know, the people that are supposed to stop false advertising.

Where has Ad Standards Canada been during this whole election? You know, the ones that are supposed to enforce truthful advertising, on all media platforms.

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