Send to a Friend

emilyrose's avatar

Has anyone every proposed the idea of 3rd party verification of political ads and robo calls?

Asked by emilyrose (2272points) October 22nd, 2008

Since both campaigns are spreading misinformation, I wondered if a 3rd party ad/call approval system would ever work, or make any sense. Basically a campaign could not run any ad without getting the approval of a “non-partisan” watchdog group. This group would fact check and ask the campaigns to tone down unnecessarily negative ads. Would it ever be possible to have a non-partisan approval team? At the very least, I don’t think that any campaign should be allowed to send out mailers with information that can be proven false, or intentionally misleading.

Using Fluther

or

Using Email

Separate multiple emails with commas.
We’ll only use these emails for this message.