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Moreover, given the considerable amount of unregulated online campaigning and advertising on internet platforms and social media, CoE member states must urgently adapt their regulations for electoral campaigns and political advertising to the online environment (see below). Positively, some social media companies have voluntarily introduced measures to improve transparency for voters by marking paid political advertisements and enabling voters to know the source of paid advertisements (e.g. in Spain and the UK).