Only one briefing note prepared by the Romanian Ministry of the Interior reveals that so-called social media influencers were recruited by intermediary companies, at least one of which appears to have been a ghost entity, to promote an unnamed “ideal candidate” profile on TikTok, Instagram and Facebook before the election. These influencers earned approximately $80 per post for every 20,000 followers they had.


The influencers were paid to post videos discussing the profile of an ideal Romanian presidential candidate, alongside the hashtag ‘#balanceandverticality’. Although Georgescu-Roegen was not mentioned directly, this so-called ideal candidate closely matched his own profile. The messages generated between 1,000 and 500,000 views per video.


A Romanian who works in cryptocurrency paid $381,000 to some TikTok users involved in promoting Georgescu-Roegen in the month before the first round of the presidential election, according to the documents. Georgescu-Roegen claimed in his TV interview on Wednesday that he had never met this person and that his name did not ring a bell.


Several influencers came out after Georgescu-Roegen’s first-round win to say they regretted their posts.


The strategy was similar to a campaign deployed in neighboring country Moldovain an effort to convince people to vote for the pro-Russian candidate in that country’s two-round presidential election, the Interior Ministry document said. Moldova’s incumbent pro-EU president Maia Sandu, who is also a Romanian citizen, narrowly won last month’s second round. amid warnings that Russia planned to overthrow its government and install its own proxy regime to control the country.


Russia used similar tactics in campaigns the Kremlin waged in Ukraine before launching its invasion of the country, the document said.




Sitemap of hyfbspngeu.nika62.ru

Cannabis News RSS Feeds: Weedrss.com

1000+ unique media and news posts every 24 hours…

Published 2 hours ago
Published 7 hours ago
Published 13 hours ago
Published 16 hours ago
Published 17 hours ago
Published 17 hours ago
Published 20 hours ago
Published 21 hours ago
Published 21 hours ago
Published 21 hours ago
Published 22 hours ago