To Georges – The Internet reinforces the wrong information prevention in Tictoc Romania to refrain from repeating the case
With about nine million users in Romania – social network equals Facebook – Chinese platform played a decisive role in the first lap of Romanian PresidentialIt took place on November 24 last year, in the unprecedented decision of the country’s constitutional court, a member of the European Union (EU) and NATO.
Romanian secret services have been invented Extensive Coordination Campaign at Tictoc, which includes more than 25 thousand accountsAnd they were eliminated from 5% of voting intentions to 23% to the winner, they were eliminated to the right-right candidate Calin Georges.
Independent media company context. Row revealed that Tictoc was not the only platform used in the investigation: Journalists have invented the network of 18 additional sites, coordinating them to publish pro-Jergees and distribute them through Payment Facebook ads.
These pages are the second largest Romanian political force, The Union of Romanians (Ar, right) for the Union for the Union for Georges. This party is led by George Simian, who is now liking to start the presidency repeatedly, scheduled on Sunday.
Despite the expanding action, Georges have reported zero expenses to the Election Monitoring Commission, which are not very visible campaigns. , However, however, ARU-associated pages spent over 46,000 euros to encourage between November 26 and December 2.
According to Context.ro, Romanian Secret Services recognized excellent similarities between this operation and Russian influence campaigns, which were used by the “brother” campaign in Ukraine, using similar micro-prominent manipulation strategies.
More than 20 non -governmental organizations (NGO) have appealed to the European Commission and Romania Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (ANNOM) to analyze whether the major online platforms EU is in accordance with the terms of the Digital Services Act (DSA) During the first lap of Romanian presidential election.
The Constitutional Court canceled elections on December 6 before 48 hours before the second round.
According to the geographical political analyst Antonia Colibasan of the Institute of Research on Foreign Policy (FPRI), the United States-based ‘Think-Tank’ (reflective group) Moscow intends to promote national partition and political instability, weakening the support of Romanians to EU and NATOIncreasing the regional impact of Russia and decreases support for neighboring Ukraine.
In an article published on the Institute, the expert said that it would be more effective to spread false messages that feed on Moscow nationalist feelings in the country with a strong anti -Russian concept.
“A clear example of the subtlety of Russian false communications campaigns” Ukrainian refugees will get more state financial allocations than Romanian children “false accusations”, “An article was created to nurture and sow the partition,” said Antonia Kobibasa.
On December 17, the European Commission filed an official case against the TTITOK suspicion of violating election integrity in Romania.
The community is suspected to have fulfilled its responsibility to properly assess and reduce the systemic losses associated with the electoral integrity, which was recently in the context of the Romanian presidential election on November 24.
Tiktok said he wants to cooperate with the authorities: “We have found that the Romanian presidential election is an important event in the observation of serious people.”Between November and Dec.
Last week, The platform has announced a “continuous work” with the Romanian Electoral Center, the new propagation of media literacy and more than 20 facts of verification of factsActivities that “strengthen” the performance of the Tictoc to “protect the platform and connect society to reliable election information. Brussels identified the response from the social network.
“In May, in connection with the next election in Romania, We appreciate the changes introduced by the Tictoc. These include the more experts in the Romanian language, which is well identified and labeled by political accounts, For the Romanian Electoral Working Group, 120 additional professionals, especially the Hidden Effect Campaigns and very integrity, “European Commissioner for Technology Commissioner Henna Virkunen said in early April.
