31 December 2024
Tuesday, 31 December 2024
Monday, 30 December 2024
Andhra Pradesh
30 December 2024
ANI on X: "#WATCH | Hyderabad | On the issue of allocating space for a memorial for former PM #DrManmohanSingh, brother of former PM PV Narasimha Rao, Manohar Rao says, "...Congress needs to look back 20 years on how much respect they gave to their leader PV Narasimha Rao... Even Sonia https://t.co/N5q12IYDRH" / X Even Sonia Gandhi didn't attend his last rites... Congress didn't construct one statue for him or give him the Bharat Ratna... If you complete your formalities, the BJP will give land for Dr Manmohan Singh's memorial. Congress didn't even open the gates of the AICC office for Narasimha Rao..."
Saturday, 21 December 2024
Tamil Nadu
30 December 2024
Kompella Madhavi Latha on X: "Smt. Madhavi Latha Garu states that the CM of Tamil Nadu and his son neither respect the shakti of women nor Sanatana Dharma. The 19-year-old girl who was assaulted at Chennai's Anna University — even though the details of the victim should not have been disclosed — had her FIR https://t.co/pbaxRzgSHm" / X My brother #Annamalai , who flogged himself six times, now comes forward to perform a Diksha for women's safety, invoking the power of Sanatana Dharma. I stand with #Annamalai
21 December 2024
Friday, 13 December 2024
Sunday, 8 December 2024
Romania
Annulling presidential election results provoked people to revolt against the government and lost confidence in democracy. For all these factors, Biden and Soros are responsible.
13 January 2025
11 January 2025
2 January 2025
15 December 2024
Megatron on X: "NEW: 🇪🇺🇹🇩 Romania, the first country to fall into total NATO dictatorship after an anti-war candidate won an election. Mass arrests and persecution of supporters of the leading Presidential candidate, Călin Georgescu across the country after a Romanian court decided to annul https://t.co/mRZwJmI2Zh" / X "Mass arrests and persecution of supporters of the leading Presidential candidate, Călin Georgescu across the country after a Romanian court decided to annul the election because the winning candidate was anti-war in Ukraine.
Now his supporters are being arrested en masse and an attempt is being made to break his camp which ran his TikTok campaign.
This aggressive behavior towards the anti-war candidates shows that NATO is preparing Romania for a new front in Europe. Moldova will attack Transnistria and Romania will be drawn into the war."13 December 2024
11 December 2024
Călin Georgescu OFFICIAL ACCOUNT on X: "If romanian democracy falls, the entire world democratic system is at risk. Romania is part of EU, NATO and is one of the most important allies of the US in the Eastern Europe. If international community just stays indiferrent and enjoys the horrible political show that is https://t.co/CG07hp008w" / X horrible political show that is playing now in Romania, this will leed to an international legal precedent where a constitutional court will take the power of the vote from the people and give it always to the politicians. That will be the end of democracy as we know it, world wide.
9 December 2024
8 December 2024
Angelo Giuliano 🇨🇭🇮🇹🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻 安德龙 on X: "***BREAKING NEWS*** This is a COUP RIP democracy in Romania 🇷🇴The judges of the Constitutional Court decided to cancel the first round of the presidential elections, following declassified information from last week's CSAT meeting . Democracy, if it ever existed, is now https://t.co/2YZUuV5laf" / X "Democracy, if it ever existed, is now officially dead in Romania"
What do they show?
They document a social media campaign supporting Călin Georgescu that involved around 25,000 TikTok accounts coordinated through a Telegram channel, paid influencers, and coordinated messaging. First of all, looking at it rationally, this is actually a relatively small number of TikTok accounts for a national presidential campaign, and the documents provide limited data about the actual impact - they mention around 130 TikTok accounts generated between 1,000 and 500,000 views per video, but don't show comprehensive engagement statistics or evidence of significant voter influence. Also, importantly, everything described in these documents could just as easily be interpreted as legitimate digital marketing. The documents don't provide concrete proof of foreign state involvement or manipulation - they merely suggest the campaign "correlates with a state actor's operating mode" and draws parallels to alleged Russian operations in Ukraine and Moldova. The payment rates mentioned (400 lei per 20,000 followers, 1,000 euros per promotional video) are actually standard market rates for influencer marketing, though the documents do allege some payments were made illegally after the campaign period (the guy targeted by these allegations, a Romanian crypto entrepreneur called Bogdan Peschir, denies these allegations: realitatea.net/stiri/actual/c). The campaign coordination through Telegram channels with specific posting guidelines is exactly how modern political campaigns operate. What's notably missing from these documents is any concrete proof of foreign state involvement or manipulation. There's no technical evidence of artificial amplification, no proof the accounts were fake rather than real supporters, and no clear distinction between coordinated campaign activity (which is normal) and malicious manipulation. The documents try to draw parallels with Russian influence operations in Ukraine and Moldova, but the actual evidence presented is circumstantial at best. They note some accounts were created in 2016 but only recently became active - however, this is completely normal behavior when people become politically engaged during elections. Also, while the documents show Georgescu's popularity increased during this period, they don't prove that the social media campaign caused this rise. There could be many other factors at play - his policy positions resonating with voters, traditional campaign activities, media coverage, public appearances, or general voter dissatisfaction with other candidates. So that's quite obviously the much bigger story here: that an entire election was cancelled on the basis of what could just amount to an effective social media strategy. Heck, they don't even prove that the social media strategy was effective so in effect it's simply on the basis of the *existence* of a social media media campaign... In effect, when we strip away all the veneer, what just happened in Romania is that you had the country's top court cancel an entire presidential election because of the existence of a coordinated social media campaign on TikTok that the intelligence services claimed - without concrete evidence - resembled Russian tactics. That's the precedent being set here, where elections can be invalidated not based on proven fraud or manipulation, but on the mere existence of organized social media campaigning that authorities find suspicious. It's a dangerous path where largely unsubstantiated fears of foreign interference can be used to override actual voter choices, ironically damaging democracy far more than any social media campaign could.
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