Misleading videos on the platform are said to have influenced the election in Romania, with accusations against Russian ...

Calin Georgescu is a little-known, independent, anti-NATO, pro-Russia candidate, who is in a presidential run-off against ...

A mysterious programmer with a reputation for a lavish lifestyle has emerged as a central figure in the claims that far-right ...

An investigation by journalists at Context, a Romanian news site, also traced Mr Georgescu’s online support to Russia-linked ...

It’s rare when a presidential frontrunner thinks the moon landings were staged. Fewer would say soft drinks include ...

Calin Georgescu has emerged from obscurity to top the polls in Romania's presidential election. But the Anglophile and Trump ...

The European Commission on Thursday said it had stepped up its monitoring of TikTok, after receiving information about ...

Romania’s constitutional court threw out the results of the election’s first round and delayed the second round. The sitting ...

The presidential election was canceled after the government accused Moscow of a TikTok campaign to propel a pro-Kremlin ...

something almost unheard of in Romanian politics. Instead, Georgescu ran an almost exclusively online campaign, centering on TikTok edits of himself. The edits were usually clips of his speeches ...

But some experts suspect Georgescu’s online following was artificially inflated, while Romania’s top security body alleged he was given preferential treatment by TikTok over other candidates.

European Union regulators have ordered TikTok to retain any information related to Romania’s presidential election.