{"id":424365,"date":"2026-02-04T18:44:58","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T12:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/?p=424365"},"modified":"2026-02-04T18:45:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T13:00:00","slug":"ec-signs-mou-with-tiktok-to-curb-misleading-information-on-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/2026\/02\/04\/424365.html","title":{"rendered":"EC signs MoU with TikTok to curb misleading information on election"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Kathmandu:<\/strong> Officiating Chief Election Commissioner Ram Prasad Bhandari has informed that activities are underway in a planned manner to prevent possible misuse of technology in the upcoming election. The election to the House of Representatives is just a month away, March 5. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/02\/TikTOk-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-424366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/02\/TikTOk-1.png 1000w, https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/02\/TikTOk-1-300x150.png 300w, https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/02\/TikTOk-1-768x384.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Addressing a programme organised by the Election Commission to exchange memorandum of understanding with the representatives of TikTok on Wednesday, he mentioned that a historic agreement was signed and it would be instrumental in creating a clean digital atmosphere for HoR election. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bhandari expressed the belief that the agreement would help to minimize violation of election code of conduct and curb spread of false information. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He thanked the TikTok for its free support to stop misuse of its tech platform that might take place during election. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the occasion, EC Joint-Secretary and Spokesperson Narayan Prasad Bhattarai, and Head of Public Policy and Government Relations at TikTok, Ferdous Al Mottakin, exchanged the MoU. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The EC believed that the initiative would help maintain impartiality of HoR election. It would further contribute to EC&#8217;s efforts to control misleading and harmful content that could affect the election, added EC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>RSS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the occasion, EC Joint-Secretary and Spokesperson Narayan Prasad Bhattarai, and Head of Public Policy and Government Relations at TikTok, Ferdous Al Mottakin, exchanged the MoU. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":424366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1120,3,4,2],"tags":[],"reporter":[],"class_list":["post-424365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-en-cover","category-election-2026","category-english","category-en-news","category-top-stories-main"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424365"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":424367,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424365\/revisions\/424367"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424365"},{"taxonomy":"reporter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reporter?post=424365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}