{"id":158243,"date":"2024-12-23T16:01:23","date_gmt":"2024-12-23T14:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/?p=158243"},"modified":"2024-12-23T16:01:24","modified_gmt":"2024-12-23T14:01:24","slug":"epic-scandal-in-romania-ruling-party-paid-for-tiktok-campaign-that-led-to-the-annulment-of-georgescus-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/epic-scandal-in-romania-ruling-party-paid-for-tiktok-campaign-that-led-to-the-annulment-of-georgescus-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"EPIC SCANDAL IN ROMANIA: Ruling party paid for TikTok campaign that led to the annulment of Georgescu&#8217;s victory!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Romanian National Liberal Party (PNL), one of the ruling parties in Romania, financed a TikTok campaign that intelligence services used as evidence of &#8220;foreign interference&#8221; in favor of independent candidate Calin Georgescu, according to a new report by the investigative portal snoop.ro.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Georgescu won the first round of presidential elections in Romania on November 24 by a landslide. However, the country&#8217;s highest constitutional court annulled the vote due to a TikTok campaign that allegedly heavily promoted Georgescu, who was labeled by leading Western media as a &#8220;far-right pro-Russian candidate.&#8221; The justification for annulling the election due to the TikTok campaign was that &#8220;the campaign appears to correspond to influence operations carried out by the Kremlin in Ukraine and Moldova.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Also, interestingly, Politico is completely misrepresenting this bombshell investigation: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DNNN3erRMT\">https:\/\/t.co\/DNNN3erRMT<\/a><br><br>Let me show you how they&#39;re trying to spin it.<br><br>Politico claims that the investigation shows that &quot;a campaign from a governing center-right party may have been\u2026<\/p>&mdash; Arnaud Bertrand (@RnaudBertrand) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RnaudBertrand\/status\/1870687605765104021?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 22, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p>However, according to the snoop.ro report, the Romanian tax authority discovered that the Liberals had paid for a social media campaign on TikTok through influencers and by promoting a specific hashtag that was eventually also &#8220;used to benefit Georgescu.&#8221; The PNL is a minor coalition partner in the outgoing government, and their candidate came in fifth place in the annulled first round of voting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">NATO is building the largest NATO military base in all of Europe in Romania, right on Romania&#39;s Black Sea coast pointing at Crimea, the crux point of contest in the Russia-Ukraine war.<br><br>NATO feared the man who won Romania&#39;s now-canceled election would cut or shut the base down. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/esiy9hSGvP\">pic.twitter.com\/esiy9hSGvP<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Mike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MikeBenzCyber\/status\/1868886201262129315?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 17, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p>The PNL hired an external firm, Kensington Communication, to conduct the social media campaign. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;If the campaign was cloned or used to benefit one candidate or another, we ask the competent authorities to investigate and take the necessary legal measures,&#8221; said Kensington Communication.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The company also stated that the instructions they sent to influencers for the campaign were changed, according to Politico. 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(PHOTO)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Izvor<\/strong>: Serbian Times, <strong>Foto<\/strong>: INQUAM Photos<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Romanian National Liberal Party (PNL), one of the ruling parties in Romania, financed a TikTok campaign that intelligence services used as evidence of &#8220;foreign interference&#8221; in favor of independent candidate Calin Georgescu, according to a new report by the investigative portal snoop.ro. 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