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<p>The Government is committed to increasing transparency in digital campaigning.
On 5 May 2019, the Government announced that candidates, political parties and non-party
campaigners will be required to brand or ‘imprint’ their digital election materials,
so the public is clear who is targeting them. The Government will bring forward the
technical proposal for this regime later on this year.</p><p> </p><p>Whilst there
are no current plans for a database of online political adverts, we are encouraging
action to increase transparency of wider political advertising online. Several social
media companies have already implemented tools to enhance transparency about the origins
of political and electoral adverts on their platforms, including political advert
libraries. However, these efforts have been inconsistent and the Government is clear
that more could be done. As such, the Online Harms White Paper, published on 8 April
2019, proposes that under the new online safety regulatory framework platforms could
be required to improve transparency of political advertising, as part of their duty
of care to protect their users from disinformation.</p>
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