EC urged to rectify its move of monitoring social media with security agencies help

KATHMANDU: Stakeholders, including the Federation of Nepalese Journalists (FNJ), have protested the move of the Election Commission (EC) to monitor mass media and social media by setting up a cyber bureau of the army and the police under the name of media monitoring at its secretariat.

Stakeholders and experts have denounced the EC-set up Press Office for monitoring the media, citing that it has infringed upon the jurisdiction of the Press Council of Nepal.