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Social Media for Government Members: Greens Make Partial Retreats
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der Standard DESeveral parties have been fined because ministry staff have also prepared party-political content. The government now wants to change the law retroactively.
ÖVP, SPÖ and Neos want to allow employees in ministerial offices to write postings for government members, retroactively. The Greens now move away from this and propose an alternative.
Diplomats in today's world are also considering how to show citizens their work and its results through social networks. In a situation where 97 percent of world leaders have accounts on the X network, it would be short-sighted to ignore social networks, says former ambassador to NATO Peter Bátor.
The governing parties ÖVP, SPÖ and NEOS, together with the Greens, agreed on a new regulation of the social media accounts of politicians. This was announced by the four parties in a joint message on Thursday. In the future, for example, employees in ministerial offices will be allowed to work with accounts of government members. A retroactive effect, which in the meantime had provided criticism because ongoing proceedings would be affected, is …
Are the penalties already imposed by law removed? Sigrid Maurer does not want any retroactive effect now. In future, however, people paid by the ministry should be able to look after accounts of top politicians.
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