>The World Service infiltrated the network – co-ordinated on the messaging app Telegram – through a link sent to us by a whistleblower.
>The network, we concluded, is made up of at least 90 TikTok accounts – some masquerading as news outlets – which have posted thousands of videos totalling more than 23 million views and 860,000 likes since January. Moldova’s population is just 2.4 million.
>Our evidence also suggests the network our reporter joined is being bank-rolled from Russia. Ana overheard – and filmed – Alina Juc on the phone asking for money from Moscow.
ReadToW on
If Moldova survives despite Russia’s colossal efforts to destroy democracy there (and, as always, without the involvement of democratic countries, because they work differently), and if the AUR wins in Romania, then I am living in a simulation
JeSuisDecuEnBien on
Russian disruption? That’s new.
Daisy1868 on
Can we just cut all communications with Russia until they are no longer a dictatorship? Like cut off their internet or send back their diplomats? They are slowly poisoning us, metaphorically.
Consistent-Low-0 on
the easiest way to dismiss the frustration with the government of Republic of Moldova is to blame something on the Internet, not the inability of the party in power to provide basic social rights ; a good pension in the countryside is about 350 eur, after 40 years of work as a schoolteacher, who needs disinformation? the minimul pension is about 170 eur [https://moldova1.md/p/44635/moldova-raises-minimum-pensions-to-3-300-lei-under-new-law](https://moldova1.md/p/44635/moldova-raises-minimum-pensions-to-3-300-lei-under-new-law)
Ruppert88 on
So this is the reason for all the fake news from BBC? Interesting!
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>The World Service infiltrated the network – co-ordinated on the messaging app Telegram – through a link sent to us by a whistleblower.
>The network, we concluded, is made up of at least 90 TikTok accounts – some masquerading as news outlets – which have posted thousands of videos totalling more than 23 million views and 860,000 likes since January. Moldova’s population is just 2.4 million.
>Our evidence also suggests the network our reporter joined is being bank-rolled from Russia. Ana overheard – and filmed – Alina Juc on the phone asking for money from Moscow.
If Moldova survives despite Russia’s colossal efforts to destroy democracy there (and, as always, without the involvement of democratic countries, because they work differently), and if the AUR wins in Romania, then I am living in a simulation
Russian disruption? That’s new.
Can we just cut all communications with Russia until they are no longer a dictatorship? Like cut off their internet or send back their diplomats? They are slowly poisoning us, metaphorically.
the easiest way to dismiss the frustration with the government of Republic of Moldova is to blame something on the Internet, not the inability of the party in power to provide basic social rights ; a good pension in the countryside is about 350 eur, after 40 years of work as a schoolteacher, who needs disinformation? the minimul pension is about 170 eur [https://moldova1.md/p/44635/moldova-raises-minimum-pensions-to-3-300-lei-under-new-law](https://moldova1.md/p/44635/moldova-raises-minimum-pensions-to-3-300-lei-under-new-law)
So this is the reason for all the fake news from BBC? Interesting!