{"id":8623,"date":"2026-01-28T12:02:49","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T12:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=8623"},"modified":"2026-01-28T12:02:49","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T12:02:49","slug":"european-commission-still-investigating-tiktoks-interference-in-romanias-cancelled-2024-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=8623","title":{"rendered":"European Commission still investigating TikTok\u2019s interference in Romania\u2019s cancelled 2024 elections"},"content":{"rendered":"

The European Commission, the executive branch of the EU, is still collecting \u201cfacts and data from all parties involved\u201d in Romania\u2019s cancelled 2024 presidential elections<\/a>. The Commission originally opened the investigation into TikTok\u2019s interference in the elections, and forced the platform to make some changes.<\/p>\n

The investigation is now more than a year old, and reformist center-right members of the European Parliament from Romania, Vlad Voiculescu and Dan Barna, said that the European Commission\u2019s reaction \u201cremains unacceptably slow\u201d.<\/p>\n

The two MEPs inquired about the state of the investigation and received a response from the Commission. In it, the institution noted that it \u201cremains fully committed to the rigorous enforcement of the obligations of the Digital Services Act (DSA)\u201d but mentioned that \u201cinvestigations are still ongoing, with the Commission currently collecting facts and data from all parties involved and reviewing the available evidence.\u201d<\/p>\n

The same response, signed by Commission head Ursula von der Leyen, said that the body \u201cclosely monitored\u201d what changes TikTok made<\/a> after the 2024 elections and \u201cduring the elections in Romania in May 2025.\u201d It also collaborated with Romanian state institutions in the same period.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cANCOM, as the Digital Services Coordinator in Romania, organized in March 2025 an electoral roundtable and a stress test, bringing together national authorities, online platforms, and civil society organizations. These meetings facilitated the exchange of information among stakeholders on election-related issues, strengthened situational awareness, and allowed online platforms to test their level of preparedness,\u201d the same source added.<\/p>\n

Moreover, the Commission reminded that it \u201copened formal proceedings against X, Meta, and TikTok under the DSA, concerning systemic risks to electoral processes and civic discourse\u201d following the 2024 elections. These acts led to a series of measures on the part of TikTok to better detect and label political accounts.\u00a0<\/p>\n

USR MEPs Vlad Voiculescu and Dan Barna said that the European Commission\u2019s \u201cslowness of reaction\u201d is \u201ca danger to democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe fact that Ursula von der Leyen confirms to us today, in 2026, that investigations are open and that data is being \u2018collected\u2019 about the elections of 2024 and 2025 shows a systemic fault line. Although TikTok announced specific measures, including a team of 120 experts for the elections in Romania, the effects of disinformation have already occurred. We need rapid response mechanisms, not post-factum findings,\u201d Dan Barna said, quoted in USR\u2019s press release.<\/p>\n

TikTok reveleaved in a 2025 report that in December 2024, a network of 27,217 accounts operating through a fake engagement provider attempted to promote the AUR political party and independent candidate C\u0103lin Georgescu<\/a> by posting comments on a large scale.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The European Commission, the executive branch of the EU, is still collecting \u201cfacts and data from all parties involved\u201d in Romania\u2019s cancelled 2024 presidential elections. The Commission originally opened the investigation into TikTok\u2019s interference in the elections, and forced the platform to make some changes. The investigation is now more than a year old, and […]<\/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-8623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8623","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=8623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}