{"id":225990,"date":"2026-03-04T12:54:03","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T10:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-a-new-era-of-public-trust-through-digital-communication\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T12:54:03","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T10:54:03","slug":"liberia-a-new-era-of-public-trust-through-digital-communication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-a-new-era-of-public-trust-through-digital-communication\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: A New Era of Public Trust Through Digital Communication"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Monrovia, Liberia; March 4, 2026: The National Elections Commission (NEC) knows trust starts with good communication. As Liberians turn to Facebook and other online sources for election updates, NEC must adapt to a rapidly evolving digital landscape.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">NEC&#8217;s communication staff were committed, but their tools and skills were outdated. Some messages were unclear. Updates came slowly. Many citizens struggled to find reliable election information online.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"14\">NEC needed more than just a website update; it&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603040343.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Liberia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/liberia\/\">Liberia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monrovia, Liberia; March 4, 2026: The National Elections Commission (NEC) knows trust starts with good communication. As Liberians turn to Facebook and other online sources for election updates, NEC must adapt to a rapidly evolving digital landscape. NEC&#8217;s communication staff were committed, but their tools and skills were outdated. Some messages were unclear. Updates came [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":225991,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086],"tags":[258,256,6204,9633,11475,4712,1107,257,5751,254,8641],"class_list":["post-225990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-communication","tag-digital","tag-era","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-public","tag-south-africa-today","tag-trust"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}