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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 ···
The stakes in these presidential elections are very high. The campaign has highlighted divisions and discontent in society and polarized public opinion. After Sunday, we will need to be able to continue to live together regardless of our differences of opinion, to listen to and understand each other, and to find explanations for how we ···
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 ···
On May 13, the Ilfov Electoral Bureau decided to remove from the internet an editorial published in Aktual24, and the decision was upheld on May 14 by the Central Electoral Bureau. The editorial criticized the aggressive language used by one of the presidential candidates and urged citizens to vote. The decision of the electoral bureau ···
The European Platform for Democratic Elections (EPDE) and Expert Forum (EFOR) are pleased to invite you to a briefing on Romania’s second round of the 2025 presidential elections, set to take place on 18 May. This event follows the first round held on 4 May, which saw 11 candidates competing. While the ruling coalition’s candidate failed to advance, ···
Vot Corect preliminary report – 1st round Press conference The presidential election offered voters a variety of choices and fundamental rights were generally respected. The election administration organized efficiently the technical aspects of the process and election day was orderly, without significant incidents. The fact that the decision to annul the November elections was insufficiently ···
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 ···
The European Platform for Democratic Elections (EPDE) and Expert Forum (EFOR) are pleased to invite you to a briefing on Romania’s upcoming 2025 presidential elections, set to take place on May 4 and 18. After the annulment of the 2024 elections, public interest in organizing the new electoral process increased significantly. Key aspects such as candidate registration, campaigning, ···
The way electoral commissions are setup has changed constantly in recent years. But not always through laws discussed in Parliament long before the election date, but through emergency ordinances or articles crammed into a long list of amendments. This is despite the fact that one of the basic principles of legislative stability, defined by the ···
As part of the “Support to Electoral Reforms in the Western Balkans” project, the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), in cooperation with Expert Forum, is organizing a workshop on “The Experience of the 2024 Romanian Elections: Strengthening Electoral Integrity in the Western Balkans.” When: 11 March 2025, 09:00 – 12 March 2025, 13:30 ···