A massive, coordinated expensive Tik-Tok promotion campaign helped a pro- Russian candidate in Romanian presidential elections. He declared he spent no money on the campaign...
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgq18w507dko
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgq18w507dko
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Read: “Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World" by Anne Applebaum -
Thank you, Anne
Where’s the solutions? (Since Elon Musk, Rogan Carlson etc. seem to give Putin what he wants and has succeeded in convincing millions of Americans to go against their own good)
I feel like since so many people can’t even show up to vote to save American democracy, maybe they just haven’t suffered enough yet?
So to me this doesn't seem like a full explanation.
Also: why are voters always choosing the most insane option?
Democracy works is because you can vote, georgescu will grab onto power like luka in belarus.. mark my words. It'll be less than 6 months.
If only Goldsmith had social media as we know it.
Usually the courts would weigh "to what extent the campaign laws violations tilted the result" and give a pass if impact was not decisive.
But here it was 100%.
*romanians will understand this joke.
He said he wants to work in Romania but he wants german paycheck... georgescu exploited that with pinpoint accuracy. Like a surgeon.
China is playing an evil game behind the scenes in favor of Russia. An alliance of dictatorships jointly threatens the Western democracies. And these democracies are clearly unable to counteract this effectively.
2020: "Neo-Nazi Rinaldo Nazzaro running US militant group The Base from Russia" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-51236915
But you knew that troll
Stop being reactionary. Obviously there is info being shared, but it's not as much as US gov't with US tech companies. It's faux outrage to me when we have the NSA.
"According to a release published by TikTok last May, about 60% of ByteDance is "beneficially owned by global institutional investors such as Carlyle Group, General Atlantic, and Susquehanna International Group," 20% by employees, and the rest by Zhang."
The US government already does the EXACT same thing. My ? is about the selective framing - no different from corporate media imo.
Where did I say or indicate being "Pro-China"?
I believe in liberty and anti-imperialism. US meddling in elections has been happening for over 50 years. To ignore that and cry "China!" is simply a bad faith argument.
Asking for integrity in framing and messaging isn't "whataboutism".
If rumpf offered a great app. that was fun, I wouldn't touch it. Would you?
Information cocoons algorithmically created by foreign entities will hijack our democracy as well.
Social media corporations must be accountable for their algorithms and their effects.
I am from Romania.
Solution is: the Romanian high court, to put him in jail. And investigations to start on everything suspected politicians. Make them turn against each other and let the beans get spilled.
imagine them, dugin and pootin sitting and waiting for the results, biting their nails....but the tictoc influence alone wouldn't be secure enough as a tool of changing the order of the world... they despise democracy after all, despise people and want them subjugated by any means.
I will never vote the Left again