{"id":40163,"date":"2026-07-21T11:39:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T09:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=40163"},"modified":"2026-07-21T11:39:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T09:39:18","slug":"sas-iec-proposes-election-disinformation-code","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sas-iec-proposes-election-disinformation-code\/","title":{"rendered":"SA&#8217;s IEC proposes election disinformation code"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Electoral\u00a0Commission\u00a0of\u00a0South\u00a0Africa&#8217;s (IEC) Chief Electoral Officer, Sy Mamabolo, says its newly proposed disinformation code is aimed at safeguarding the integrity of information during elections and helping to ensure free and fair polls.<\/div>\n<div>\nThe code forms part of broader efforts to combat the spread of false and misleading information ahead of SA&#8217;s 2026 Local Government Elections.<\/div>\n<div>\nThe Electoral Commission has proposed regulations that could see political parties and candidates penalised for disseminating fake news, sharing Artificial Intelligence, generated deepfakes, or publishing misleading election-related content during campaign periods.<\/div>\n<div>\nMamabolo\u00a0further noted that political parties and candidates who deliberately spread false information during election campaigns could face sanctions under the new code.<\/div>\n<div>\nThe proposed measures form part of the IEC&#8217;s ongoing efforts to strengthen electoral integrity and protect voters from misinformation and disinformation during the election process.<\/div>\n<div>\n&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":21186,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-40163","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Electoral\u00a0Commission\u00a0of\u00a0South\u00a0Africa'","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/40163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/40163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40164,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/40163\/revisions\/40164"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=40163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}