Possibile manipolazione di Tiktok nella gara presidenziale della Romania? I video di George Simion esplodono improvvisamente nelle visualizzazioni, mentre la caduta di Nicuș o

I’ve been monitoring TikTok activity related to Romania’s upcoming presidential elections, and something strange is happening. I’ve attached 4 screenshots showing what looks like clear evidence of artificial view inflation on George Simion’s official TikTok account.

Just a week or two ago, Simion’s videos were getting 500k to 2 million views. Now, many are suddenly jumping to 6-7 million views, yet likes remain at around 100k, which is an unusually low engagement rate for that scale. This kind of discrepancy suggests viewbotting or paid promotion to boost visibility artificially.

At the same time, Nicușor Dan, Simion’s main political rival and current mayor of Bucharest, has seen a sharp and unnatural drop in his TikTok views. His videos used to regularly get 100k-200k views, sometimes over 1 million. Now he’s down to 20k-90k on most clips.

Simion is known for using populist rhetoric and has ties to proRussian narratives, making this sudden TikTok surge even more suspicious. If this is indeed coordinated manipulation, it’s deeply concerning for the democratic process.

This is truly modern epidemic, the propaganda activity on tiktok is obvious, even bot comments are elevated to the very top if anyone pay attention. Most liked comments aren’t top of the list and some obnoxious ai punchlines that never responds always top the list. On top of that AI generated videos are getting so realistic it becomes impossible to distinguish from real thing unless something absurd is said or done… Scary times

An attack does not have to be kinetic. I view this interference as nothing short of a direct attack by Russia/china. This is a foreign country using tools they have control of, to directly affect our future. This is not just a Romania problem, this can happen in any country in the world.

1) its likely but it cant be proven

2) what would the solution be? Cancelling elections another time?

Anyways a long term solution may be that social media with an high number of users should make the code public

is anyone surprised tiktok has been pushing right-wing shit after kissing trumps ass?

Romanian zoomers suddenly talking about “I’m not going to vote for the lesser of two evils” and “I can’t believe you support those Nazis in Ukraine/Israel” 🤣

Tik tok should be banned like Twitter

Fuck the Russians!!?

It’s horrible, I need to level internet

I, as a Romanian I want titktok to be completely banned from my country as it is a security threat at this point, similar like Albania did.

We need to ban unregulated social media like Tiktok and Twitter in the EU.

When will we understand that social media is a Trojan horse.
The front war is over, unless you want to grab resources, but if you want to control a country, control its information
The first thing that is attacked in time of war is the antennas that inform people, this cuts off access to millions of citizens

If your For You page starts looking like a political ad for one guy only, that’s not organic support, that’s digital astroturfing. Especially in Eastern Europe, where social media rules are practically a free-for-all. Don’t underestimate how cheap and effective that manipulation is.

Social media and manipulated elections?

*shocked*

You guys still haven’t banned Tiktok after last time?

or may-be just peoples on TikTok are more interested in George Simion than Nicușor Dan, then the algorithme suggest more George Simion, and it snowball, without specific intention.