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This report’s monitoring exercise confirms and deepens findings from earlier Expert Forum monitoring for FACT-HUB.EU, which have documented coordinated disinformation operations in Moldova. Among our recent conclusions: (i) that pro-Russian narratives are being spread through both overt channels (e.g. political actors, media outlets) and covert ones (fake or anonymous social media accounts), (ii) that online ···
Expert Forum analyzed the financing of political parties in 2024. And it was not an easy task, especially since it was the richest year in the history of political parties. The state paid for reimbursements for electoral campaigns, as well as for annual subsidies to political parties, over a billion lei, from public money. We ···
“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 ···
Following their defeat in the 2024 presidential elections, the Romanian authorities rushed through Emergency Ordinance 1/2025, which regulates political advertising. The ordinance has been criticized for its lack of clarity and its potential to undermine freedom of expression. EFOR analyzed how the regulations on political advertising were applied in the May elections and is publishing ···
Expert Forum is proud to announce that our Executive Director, Laura Ștefan, has been appointed to the External Evaluation Commission for Prosecutors in the Republic of Moldova. The appointment was approved by the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova during its plenary session on July 10, 2025. Laura Ștefan stated: “I have been appointed by ···
Following the second round of presidential elections in Romania on 18 May, the European Platform for Democratic Elections (EPDE), in cooperation with Expert Forum (EFOR) and the Vot Corect coalition of citizen election observers, hosted a high-level roundtable in Bucharest to discuss the findings and conclusions of the election observation in Romania. The event brought ···
The brief below examines several institutional options for civil society and independent media support, based of a research on democratization and foreign assistance to Romania over the past 35 years, with a slight regional perspective (Three Decades of Civil Society: the Ups and Downs of Promoting Democracy in Romania, available here). The finalization of our ···
Over the past three decades, Romania has undergone profound social, economic, and political transformations. This report explores the country’s transition from a totalitarian dictatorship to a pluralistic—albeit imperfect—democracy. Yet, as recent developments at the close of 2024 reveal, this progress is far from guaranteed and could easily be reversed. The report seeks to assess the ···
This report reflects only findings of Vot Corect on the organization and conduct of the second round; the report on the first round, which contains more detailed information on some procedures, can be accessed here. Read the full report See live broadcast of the press conference The second round of the presidential election was contested ···