LinkedIn: post promoting an platform to inform re. political parties

Outcome

Overview

The complainant states that the "chatbot" [https://election.mzansi.ai/] "provides false answers to questions about political parties". He asserts that this constitutes mis- or disinformation.

Background & Outcome

The LinkedIn post submitted for review seeks to promote the platform https://election.mzansi.ai/ The stated purpose of the platform is to "educate the public... about our political parties, their manifestos, party web content, and all the electoral rules and acts..." The methodology used is made clear and in same post it was stated that "this application purely ingests the data and uses it to answer questions". The site itself contains disclaimers regarding the way in which the information is compiled. It is not within the scope of Real411's mandate to decide on the ethics of such a platform and the guardrails that may be required around the use thereof.

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