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An EFOR-ARP opinion poll provides new data on social media consumption and Romanians’ trust in social networks. Here are a few conclusions: Television remains the dominant source of information in terms of trust Among platforms, Facebook remains dominant, while TikTok is popular among nationalists and young people in rural areas There is a major difference ···
Monitoring Report: April–May 2026 Authors: Mădălina Voinea (Digital Programs Coordinator, Expert Forum), Vlad Adamescu (Co-Chair, Center for Democracy and Good Governance), Monirul Hassan (Independent Researcher, Computer Science) FULL REPORT HERE 1. Context: Romania’s Political Crisis, the Digital Media Landscape, and Inauthentic Campaigns as Information Pollution In a period of political crisis, Romanian TikTok feeds ···
Author: Madalina Voinea Credits: Context, PROMPT Following the elections in the Republic of Moldova, we are seeing surprising reactions in the public sphere regarding the apparent performance of Vasile Costiuc’s Democracy at Home Party, a party that polls show to be below the 5% parliamentary threshold in the Republic of Moldova, somewhere between 1.8-3%. We ···
The infrastructure of an information war 93 million views and nearly 10,000 posts between September 1 and 23 Data source: Lists monitored on the FACT platform Data Credits from investigations of: Context.ro, ExpertForum.ro, Watchdog.md, Promo-LEX, PROMPT , DFR LAB -ATLANTIC COUNCIL Authors: Mădălina Voinea Contributors: Sorin Ioniță, Atilla Biro, Septimius Pârvu, Daniel Timofte, Mihaela Tănase, ···
“On social networks, a Romanian think tank found that just one hundred coordinated accounts promoted videos with 13 million views in a single month. Their comments—thousands of lines copied word for word—reflect manipulation, not an authentic debate.” Source: presedinte.md Today we feel deeply honored and grateful. President of the Republic of Moldova Maia Sandu mentioned ···
Authors: Voinea Mădălina, Sorin Ioniță The report, based on the analysis of 3,391 videos, 36,338 comments, and 100 identified inauthentic accounts, reveals an alarming reality. From fake accounts generated by artificial intelligence that mimic the character of the “flower lady” to coordinated international networks that create the illusion of organic posting behavior, the report presents ···
A network evolving from accounts and the hashtag #ankaversace to an ecosystem of conspiracies and anti-establishment content In February 2025, we discovered a coordinated network on TikTok spreading globalist conspiracy theories and anti-establishment messages, generating 1,119 videos. We named the network Anka Versace, as the content originated from accounts using this hashtag. After TikTok deleted ···
Techniques: coordinated distribution, clickbait, and accidental viralization in the 2025 Facebook campaign Facebook is already a common social network for Romanians, with over 11 million users in 2025. Information circulates intensely in public and private groups, on entertainment pages on Facebook, and elsewhere. EFOR monitors over 1,000 public pages and groups, and in many of ···
See the report here What can we observe in the case of the 2025 presidential elections in Romania? Online election campaigns in Romania have entered a new era, dominated by an industry of political promotion through inauthentic networks. Although TikTok prohibits official political advertising, in practice we are witnessing an explosion of disguised, coordinated content ···
We have been monitoring the presidential campaign on TikTok since January 2025 and have observed mostly positive trends in visibility for Crin Antonescu and George Simion through inauthentic accounts of the CIB (Coordinated Inauthentic Behaviour) type, but also rapid increases in the number of followers for the official accounts of Victor Ponta and Nicușor Dan ···