{"id":2945,"date":"2024-12-10T08:01:49","date_gmt":"2024-12-10T08:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=2945"},"modified":"2024-12-10T08:01:49","modified_gmt":"2024-12-10T08:01:49","slug":"facebook-had-its-role-in-promoting-romanias-pro-russian-presidential-candidate-report-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=2945","title":{"rendered":"Facebook had its role in promoting Romania&#8217;s pro-Russian presidential candidate, report shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meta Platforms Inc. allowed a network of Facebook pages to post more than 4,100 political ads attacking Romania&#8217;s pro-EU presidential candidate Elena Lasconi and promoting far-right figures, including C\u0103lin Georgescu, in the run-up to the country&#8217;s elections, a report says, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2024-12-09\/covert-facebook-network-found-to-be-targeting-romanian-voters\" target=\"_blank\">Bloomberg<\/a> investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The campaign was run on 25 apparently separate Facebook pages for entities whose websites shared hosting, advertising, and email infrastructure, indicating an organized effort to influence the election, according to a report by digital threat research groups Reset Tech and Check First.<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear who was behind the network, which boosted political posts on Facebook and Instagram with advertising spend of up to EUR 264,909 (USD 279,610), according to the report.<\/p>\n<p><em>iulian@romania-insider.com<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>(Photo source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dreamstime.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cammeraydave\/Dreamstime.com<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta Platforms Inc. allowed a network of Facebook pages to post more than 4,100 political ads attacking Romania&#8217;s pro-EU presidential candidate Elena Lasconi and promoting far-right figures, including C\u0103lin Georgescu, in the run-up to the country&#8217;s elections, a report says, according to a Bloomberg investigation. The campaign was run on 25 apparently separate Facebook pages [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}