EU Opens Investigation Into TikTok Over Election Interference

The European Commission has launched formal proceedings against TikTok over concerns about its failure to limit election interference, particularly in last month's Romanian presidential vote. Reuters reports: The Commission said it will request information and look into TikTok's policy on political advertisements and paid-for political content as well as TikTok's systems to generate recommendations and the risks of them being manipulated. The opening of formal proceedings empowers the Commission to take further enforcement steps and to accept commitments made by TikTok. There is no specific deadline to complete proceedings.

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[ShanghaiBill]

The Supreme Court had to annul the election because the people voted for the wrong guy.

So the wrong guy won? :-)

[drnb]

The European Commission has launched formal proceedings against TikTok over concerns about its failure to limit election interference, particularly in last month's Romanian presidential vote.

So the wrong guy won according to the sensibilities of the European Commissioners? :-)

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[Anonymous Coward]

the wrong guy won according to how elections work moron

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[ShanghaiBill]

the wrong guy won according to how elections work moron

The vote was very close to pre-election polling.

I don't understand what voters see in Georgescu (Romania's Trump), but there is no reason to believe the vote wasn't legitimate.

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[WaffleMonster]

So the wrong guy won according to the sensibilities of the European Commissioners? :-)

Nobody won. All candidates failed to gain required majority and second round of voting never occurred due to court annulling the election due to foreign interference.

Can't overrule the locals? Ban social media!

[Rujiel]

This is a cover of the american smash hit, "Can't compete wirh social media? Ban it!"

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[Rujiel]

Someone is butthurt about other european countries learning the US is not their friend. You have to act like Georgia's election was rigged too since it didn't go your way.

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[WaffleMonster]

You have to act like Georgia's election was rigged too since it didn't go your way

Georgia's election was most likely rigged as evidenced by the insane 13% discrepancy between exit polling and voting results.

https://www.edisonresearch.com... [edisonresearch.com]

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[Rujiel]

I dob't disagree that exit polls are reliable, but is 13% insane? Was it insane when Hillary Clinton had the same discrepancy over Sanders with white voters?

https://tdmsresearch.com/2016/... [tdmsresearch.com]

"Using these percentages to estimate the results of this earlier exit poll result [9] yielded a large discrepancy of 13.4% in favor of Clinton when compared with the unverified computer vote count (see Democratic Party table)"

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[WaffleMonster]

I dob't disagree that exit polls are reliable, but is 13% insane?

You are talking about statistics for a specific demographic within a single state and are misinterpreting what the 13.4% in your own reference means. It isn't the difference between exit poles and actual vote counts but an estimate based on other polls.

"the first CNN published exit poll comparison with the computerized vote count yielded a small discrepancy of 2% in Sandersâ(TM) favor. A few hours earlier; however, NBC News at 4:24 PM broadcast the percentages of white voters voting for Clinton (32%

The algorithm did it

[commodore73]

But algorithms don't vote.

Business

[JSG]

TikTok's management are profit focussed, as any corporation should be, with a frisson of attention from above, occasionally. That would be the government having a tickle to the private parts to keep things moving smoothly (now that is a euphemism I hope I never have to deal with!)

TT is basically a nationalistic influence movement, par excellence. It's not shy and frankly rather well done. They looked at Google, Facebook and the rest, intercepted the ball and ran with it.

We reap as they sow or perhaps vv

Georgescu = Trump

[oumuamua]

Hey elites, your late-capitalist system is failing around the world. Maybe YOU are the problem.

My father explained to me that his vote wasn’t necessarily an endorsement of Georgescu’s nationalist beliefs – even though they did resonate in part with him – but more of a protest against the political establishment. “I wanted to sanction the mainstream political class,” he told me.

Their frustrations mirror those of older voters: a rising cost of living, stagnating wages and a

RTFA

[TheDarkener]

From TFA: "Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said the new investigation followed serious indications that foreign actors interfered in the Romanian presidential election."

People of the world need to identify those who maliciously attempt to steer the minds of those who vote in their own elections. This isn't stopping any time soon unless we neutralize it.

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[WaffleMonster]

RTFA basically states that the EU commission believes the wrong person won, without actually trying to verify whether people in Romania WANTED to vote for that guy because they believed in his policies, etc. So as far as anyone can tell all these "investigations" are full of shit. Same with annulling the elections.

Why not have Romanian simply vote again, have Georgescu eligible for election, and see if he wins again now that outside forces have annulled the election. He probably will still win the elections..

"Outside forces have annulled" is not the case, Romania's highest court took this action. Likewise there was not a winner everyone having failed to received the votes necessary to win. There will be new elections. Investigations are ongoing, nobody has said anything about change in eligibility of Georgescu to run in future elections.