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

Glenn Diesen on X: "100.000 people protesting in Bucharest after the election results were annulled. Complete silence from the EU, which did not want to see the pro-peace candidate win https://t.co/OE527eYsJQ" / X

Daily Romania on X: "The mainstream media right now is one of the most hated institutions in Romania For 35 years they have lied to us without shame and worked against the interests of the Romanian people Journalists are being booed at the protest in Romania, where more than 100,000 are attending https://t.co/sthy9DqFl5" / X

Inevitable West on X: "🚨BREAKING: Unbelievable scenes in Romania right now as over 100,000 angry Romanians take to the streets after the EU cancel democratic result of ultra-nationalist Călin Georgescu. Romania is fighting back. 💥 https://t.co/E2F1sYrwt8" / X

11 January 2025

Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸 on X: "❤️🇷🇴 BREAKING: 20,000+ ROMANIANS are at a pro-Georgescu (@CG_Romani) rally DEMANDING free & fair elections! FUCK THE GLOBALISTS! https://t.co/sa7ODYWcEz" / X

(1) Daily Romania on X: "🇷🇴 More than 20,000 people now at the pro-Georgescu protest in Bucharest after the corrupt establishment canceled the elections Fuck the EU, Soros, Ursula von der Leyen and everyone else who wants to keep us a vassal state https://t.co/BIRz5gQwqE" / X

2 January 2025

Ursula von der Leyen on X: "Today Romania and Bulgaria become full members of the Schengen area. Congratulations to both countries. You have shown vision, patience and determination. You belong in Schengen. It's time to benefit in full from Schengen freedoms. https://t.co/jHLDP1H2Zr" / X

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

Daily Romania on X: "🇷🇴 From now on, 19:00 in Romania, Realitatea PLUS is officially banned from broadcasting It was the only major TV channel in Romania which criticized the decision to cancel the elections and which did not spread disinformation about Georgescu Romania is a dictatorship https://t.co/WR8MGRkdww" / X

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

Alex Jones on X: "World War 3 Exclusive: After Conducting a Coup in Romania, NATO is Preparing to Have the New Puppet Government Invoke Article 5 so That War can Officially be Declared on Russia For Latest Reports Watch Live on X: https://t.co/mTdpwKGmXN https://t.co/NijyuA1xu5" / X World War III planned by USA?

8 December 2024

RT on X: "Unrest continues in Tbilisi for a second consecutive weekend as anti-government protesters clash with police in the heart of the capital. RT’s Charlotte Dubenskij reports https://t.co/w6kH0fDl2g" / X

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"

Arnaud Bertrand on X: "Ok, I had a detailed look at the declassified Romanian intelligence documents (https://t.co/rgjfmbQ4xx) on the basis of which the election results were cancelled and the craziest part of all this is that they actually don't prove foreign interference or manipulation. What do https://t.co/1rQ9JlBVa7" / X 

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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