EU eyes high-stakes presidential election in Romania: Democracy tested by disinformation

Crin Antonescu, the candidate supported by PSD, PNL and UDMR in the presidential race, benefits from the services of Kensington Communication, which in the last campaign generated the "Balance and Verticality" operation on TikTok, the real beneficiary of which was...

EU eyes high-stakes presidential election in Romania: Democracy tested by disinformation

Romania is about to re-run a high-stakes presidential election, fuelled by a political crisis that has engulfed the country for the last five months. At the end of November, the ultranationalist Calin Georgescu sent shockwaves through the EU by winning the first round of the vote. But the Constitutional Court annulled the result in December, because of allegations of electoral violations and manipulation through social media. Indeed, the role pl…

TikTok launchs a special electoral centre for Romania's elections, accompanied by a media education campaign and collaboration with more than 20 fact-checking partners, who have created educational video clips to help users recognize disinformation and access official sources.

TikTok announces new measures to combat misinformation ahead of Romanian election

TikTok has launched an election centre to combat disinformation ahead of Romania’s repeat presidential vote in May, amid doubts whether the platform had failed to protect the integrity of the previous annulled election.

In order to avoid the blockages recorded in previous elections and to ensure an organized and fluent electoral process in the 2025 Romanian Presidential elections, the City Hall of Sector 1 announces that it has established new headquarters and delimitations of the polling stations. These changes were approved by the Permanent Electoral Authority (AEP). Thus, in order to balance the number […] The post New polling stations in Sector 1 to avoid c…

TikTok trials ‘Footnotes’ feature

SAN FRANCISCO— TikTok said it is testing a feature that would let people add “Footnotes” providing informative context to videos that might be misleading. The feature being tested in the United States, where the short-form video sharing app has some 170 million users, appears similar to Community Notes on X, formerly Twitter. Unlike X though, TikTok will continue its own fact-checking programme to fight misinformation, head of operations Adam Pr…