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Bot based election interference in Romania

youth.europa.eu

4 points by niemandhier 16 days ago · 2 comments

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pu_pe 16 days ago

> To give you an idea, Georgescu’s TikTok presence was carefully crafted: short clips showing him speaking "against the system," promising to "free Romania from foreign control," heavily relying on emotional imagery like children, old people, and national flags (Tukiainen, 2024). These were sprinkled with half-truths and out-of-context data, making them seem plausible to those scrolling fast without fact-checking. The persuasive power came not from logic, but from emotion, repetition, and algorithmic amplification.

Isn't this what literally every politician does?

niemandhierOP 16 days ago

It is scary to see how the elections of the whole nation were influenced heavily by coordinated outside interference

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