Audiatur et altera pars.
"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."
In Italy, I put up with #Berlusconi for many years, despite his direct or indirect control of television, because I believed that in a democracy people should not be treated as children, although they voted for the wrong candidate, if there remains a (somehow) free public sphere where I can show people that their choice is wrong.
Was there absolutely no freedom of the press in Romania to expose (allegedly) ambiguous social media campaigns?
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Maria Chiara Pievatolo
in reply to Maria Chiara Pievatolo • • •Here is a semi-technical analysis of the #romanianelections2024 constitutional court decision, and a scenario evaluation.
Anton Shekhovtsov suggests also to read this article explaining how a corrupt establishment was taking by surprise by a campaign that would be praised if it were made for Obama.
For such a neglect for a pluralistic public sphere (a corrupt oligarchy does not really need it, after all) the task to check "the use of digital technologies and artificial intelligence by candidates" was left to the constitutional court and its odd ex post intervention, while some (not all) foreign interferences are hidden in plain sight.
If democracy in Europe has any friends left, this is a wonderful gift to its enemies.
How Obama’s Team Used Big Data to Rally Voters
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