THE Commission on Elections (Comelec) is in the final stages of preparations for the midterm elections next year and will soon issue policies and guidelines on the use of social media during the campaign period, its chief said Monday.

"We are now about to finish. We are just editing the guidelines for social media. For the first time, the Comelec will come out with guidelines on the use of AI and the corresponding penalties for those who will violate the rules," Comelec Chairman George Erwin Garcia said.

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