Tiktok riporta ingannevoli imbrogli alle elezioni rumene; reti di disinformazione multipla

TikTok blocked nearly 100,000 fake accounts and 33,000 spam accounts in Romania in the second half of 2024 related to the country’s presidential elections.

In its latest transparency report, the company on Wednesday acknowledged the massive scale of online manipulation during the elections, which Romania cited as a reason for cancelling its presidential poll.

A healthy democracy should be resilient to outside noise. If viral videos on TikTok can swing a majority of a population’s opinion, then perhaps Romania’s problem is not misinformation, it’s miseducation. Blaming an app is just a distraction from the bigger problem

That why europe urgently needs its own sovereign social medias. We’re going to get owned by russia, china and the US if we don’t