from The Daily RecordANNAPOLIS — Political candidates in Maryland will have some new rules to play by if they want to use social media outlets like Facebook and Twitter to advance their campaigns.
Members of a Maryland legislative panel voted Tuesday to require candidates to clearly identify their campaign on social media sites. Representatives of AOL, Google and Facebook applauded the idea last month, saying Maryland may be the first state to create such regulations for campaigns.
Jared DeMarinis, Maryland’s board of elections candidacy and campaign finance director, said the new rules take effect in two weeks.
DeMarinis says the board wanted to create such rules to help protect the public from misinformation and candidates from people who may try to tarnish their reputation by establishing false accounts in their name.
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