Iowa Ethics Board to discuss social media rules

DES MOINES (AP) ? The Iowa Board of Ethics is expected to discuss how political candidates should handle social media accounts.

The board is scheduled to meet Thursday. On the agenda is a proposed advisory opinion about whether social media accounts created for political purposes should include a disclosure known as a ?paid for by? attribution.

Currently, political candidates or campaigns must include such a disclosure on advertisements, brochures and other items. The proposed opinion from the board says that Facebook and Twitter accounts created for political purposes should also include a ?paid for by? attribution somewhere on the profile page.

If the account was free, the proposed opinion says the person who opens and manages the account is ?paying? for the message.

The board is scheduled to discuss whether to adopt this opinion.