• bungalowtill@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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    27 days ago

    I reckon there’s gotta be a typo (or satire) in Oooops’ 2nd paragraph. It doesn’t fit to the first and I am relatively sure his POV is pretty similar to yours.

    I on the other hand would suggest to be careful to assume everybody’s just brainwashed and by that questioning ever more election results and trying to revert them if unwanted. People voting for fascists is not a thing brought upon us by foreign actors. It comes from within and we got to fight it here much more vigorously.

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      27 days ago

      @bungalowtill@lemmy.dbzer0.com Yah, I forget surveillance algorithms are only bad when they come from the West, right? (/s, just to be safe)

      In other related news:

      Romania orders election recount after TikTok bias claims

      A recount of the votes cast in Sunday’s first round of presidential elections in Romania has been ordered by the country’s top court following allegations that social media platform TikTok gave “preferential treatment” to the surprise winner, Calin Georgescu.

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        27 days ago

        Weird answer.

        But yeah, I know about the recount. And I wonder: How can a recount change anything if the voters were already manipulated when they cast their votes?

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          26 days ago

          How a little-known far-right candidate manipulated TikTok to rise to the top in the Romanian election

          Georgescu’s unexpected gains are partly linked to his social media strategy. He has used platforms like TikTok effectively to sway voter opinion and spread propaganda. However, allegations that his campaign is using fake accounts to fabricate comments and manipulate social media activity have also surfaced […]

          Georgescu […] praised Romania’s former dictator and Nazi ally during the second world war, Marshal Ion Antonescu, referring to him as a “martyr” who also did “good deeds”. […] He has also positioned himself as pro-Putin, praising the Russian president as one of the world’s few “true leaders”. He has criticised Romania’s support for Ukraine, claiming that Nato would not defend Romania if it were attacked. And he advocates for nationalist policies, aiming to reduce Romania’s reliance on imports and distance the country from the EU […]

          His TikTok account, which was set up in 2022, has more than 400,000 followers and millions of views. Numerous accounts, groups and pages in his support have also proliferated on Facebook, Instagram, and X (formerly Twitter) […]

          He has also claimed in interviews that women are incapable of leading Romania, and that feminism is “absolute dirt”. In one video, he declared that “only a man can do this”, referring to the presidency. These videos come not only from Georgescu’s official TikTok accounts, but also from unaffiliated accounts using his name in profiles or bios to promote his election […]

          These clips [on Tiktok] often rely on emotional appeals and misinformation […]

          During Georgescu’s campaign, accounts displaying bot-like behaviours have been highly active in the comment sections on TikTok, YouTube and Facebook […]

          Using bots to inflate a candidate’s social media popularity and spread misinformation is a tactic that has been used to influence elections elsewhere before […]

          Reports suggest that thousands of fake accounts promoted Georgescu through videos and comments prior to Romania’s election […]

          Valérie Hayer, a top EU lawmaker, has now called on TikTok’s CEO to appear before the European Parliament and address the platform’s possible misuse in favour of Georgescu’s campaign.