Electioneering is organized activity intended to influence electoral choices or outcomes. With large language models (LLMs), it occupies a gray area alongside partisan content, misinformation, and propaganda. section 5.5
Partisan expression may be biased toward or against a viewpoint without violating platform rules, making moderation difficult. Chatbot providers face a similar boundary problem, compounded by uncertainty about why probabilistic systems produce particular answers. section 5.5
Key governance questions include:
- How should platforms distinguish misinformation, disinformation, propaganda, and permitted partisan speech? section 5.5
- How transparent should political advertising and platform data be to researchers and fact-checkers? section 5.5
- Where should chatbot policies draw limits without suppressing free expression? section 5.5
