Il CEO di TikTok è stato convocato al Parlamento europeo per il suo coinvolgimento nelle sorprendenti elezioni rumene, mentre i ricercatori avvertono di attività segrete su migliaia di account falsi che hanno preceduto il voto
https://www.politico.eu/article/elections-tiktok-ceo-eu-parliament-romania-election-fake-accounts-pro-russia-calin-georgescu-nato-shock-victory/
di giuliomagnifico
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Ban TikTok. Now. Once and for all.
So… people are gullible. Systemic politicians have the media behind them. Non systemic ones use more democratic platforms to “get their message across”. I wish the main propaganda channels (TV networks) were also summoned to the EU parliament for their practices…
Take a good fucking look at what happened in Romania and learn as much as you can.
Also:
>”ANCOM, together with the Permanent Electoral Authority (AEP), informed major platforms through an official letter as early as August about their obligations in the context of the electoral process (…). Throughout the electoral campaigns, ANCOM closely collaborated with AEP, the authority responsible for ensuring the proper conduct of the elections, the relevant ministry, and the European Commission.
>According to information held by ANCOM, in line with legal provisions and its responsibilities, AEP sent notifications to the TikTok platform highlighting various irregularities related to illegal content distribution and requested appropriate measures to ensure the electoral campaign in Romania complies with the law. However, TikTok did not promptly act on the Romanian authority’s request. Similar notifications were also sent to other digital platforms.
>This issue has been brought to the attention of the European Commission during discussions organized by ANCOM alongside AEP representatives over the past months, including today (Tuesday, November 26, 2024),” the regulatory authority stated.
[source](https://www.g4media.ro/ancom-tiktok-nu-a-actionat-la-solicitarea-autoritatii-electorale-permanente-care-semnala-diverse-nereguli-legate-de-continutul-ilegal-distribuit.html)
I hope they do the same about X, Telegram and Facebook. Musk tipped the US election and got away with it, this is to me the most serious subject to be addressed by the EU.
Of course if people make their political opinion on TikTok then we will always be in trouble. Reality today is more depressing than those bad dystopian movies.
Why even summon him? Just ban the damn platform….
Social media is a cancer on democracy and society. Ban the political stuff from them.
Besides holding platforms like these accountable the EU should somehow push for critical thinking to be taught in schools. No amount of restrictions/ control will solve this by itself.
Can we just stop tiptoeing around and ban both X and Tiktok.
” it’s just social media” and stop trying to block my freedom = this is the responses that i get when i post of just how bad tik tok is.Tik Tok is a cancer and Europe let it spread with its Russian propaganda, the same with Twitter/X.Ban the apps outright and have a European company start one that adheres to European standards.
Please fucking do something about it instead of just saying ‘we’re investigating the potential of opening a beginning of an investigation’ or something.
Europe cannot afford to be so bloody passive and slow anymore.
FFS how long will we allow this cancerous propaganda tool to run in Europe?
We’re so weak against China it’s infuriating, they’re beating the shit out of every EU country and all we do is say amen, we’ll regret this in 20-30 years
Extra context:
Tiktok’s CEO is hailed in Singapore to be one of our brightest. It is known that Singaporeans that manage to go to Oxbridge/Harvard are either one of the following:
– Super mega smart
– Extremely wealthy
– Scholars that are bonded to the Singapore government
– Combination of the above
Iirc some stats that were thrown around by ex-scholars is that 3/4 to 90% of oxbridge Singaporeans were bonded scholars. With the remainder being those hailing from wealthy families. (Our version of “oligarchs”, which you should not screw around with if you come here)
Ivy league within the country has prestige, but it’s a prestige that is accessible by the wealthy.
Anyhow, it’s an unspoken knowledge that the only reason a Singaporean is put in charge of a Chinese company (and a huge one), is that the Singaporean is a damage control mitigator against the west. Since most of us speak English rather well.
It is well known that China’s chinese workers prefer their own kind over any others when helming their companies, same with European nations or most races. Biology.
No Singaporean will be the “CEO” of a china company by pure merit alone without alternate agendas. Namely being the face to deal/debate with Americans and Europeans.
If you want the true leader, it’s not the CEO. You need to look deeper.
Hope this helps.
This is why we have our European Union!! This guy will not win.
Ooh, I like it! When Russia-China-Iran axis started spreading Propali propaganda in TikTok, Europeans didn’t care, it didn’t affect them directly. And now they are suddenly upset))
“Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me”
putin is running this op. for over 25 years, chances this meeting will change anything are close to zero.
I will probably get downvoted for this but I think this is a misdiagnosis.
It is the establishment politics that are suffering severe setbacks, not some sneaky Russian or Chinese pulling all the strings. I am not saying there is no Russian or Chinese involvement at some level but that is not the root cause. The root cause, which is difficult to admit, is that entire liberal democratic order is in a deep crisis and a big wedge appeared between the common folk and the ruling elite.
WWII taught us to be critical of sources of facts, censorship and propaganda. Truth is still subjective and people are still susceptible with the rise of “alternative media” thanks to technology. If we act like sheep we get led by wolves.
tiktok is just the vessel, the problem lies somewhere else (and no, i dont think its russia :P)
we are to blame for our ignorance, carelessness regarding our basic rights… we give’em away without blinking, we actually willingly contribute by inviting “them” into our daily life, into our privacy … and most of the media is just as guilty … so easy we forgot (or were lulled into forgetting) **Cambridge Analytica** …
Perfect thread for Redditors to get on their high horse. Twas only a couple of weeks ago that this whole site was utterly drowned in American election nonsense…
One thing I’ve noticed over the years is that in the earliest days of social media, when it was just for the youth, it was full of memes and shitposting. Humor, concerts, movies, pop culture. When millennials were teenagers that’s what it was all about. Then X’ers and Boomers got into it and before long places like Facebook became political hell scapes. Then Gen Z comes along and you get Tick Tok. At first also full of humor and pop culture before it became completely infested with video sewage like Andrew Tate and far right politics.
The funny thing I notice however is that there’s really only 1 generation that’s been wise to this kind of bullshit: millennials. Most people I know between 30-45 have entirely left platforms like Facebook and Tick Tok and retreated to mostly Instagram and spots where you can’t push political bullshit nearly as much. Or they’ve left social media behind entirely. Boomers used to tell us not to believe everything we see on TV, but then they now believe everything they see on Facebook. Gen Z unfortunately never knew any better, social media has always been political for them.
It’s so embarrassing my god. We almost became a nation that elected a tik tok president, a man that more than half of the country had to google because people didn’t know who the fuck he was. Over 2 million votes on him, first place running, passing over the cantidate of the largest party that runs the country since the revolution, and he claims he paid 0 on his promotional campain to achieve this.
He is famously quoted as saying that the covid virus isn’t real because you can’t see it ( the virus itself, you CANT SEE THE VIRUS IN THE AIR).
Other famous quotes:
“Is water really H2O? As we were thaught, or better said, trained, to believe?”
“Caesarean isn’t good because it cuts the thread of god between the mother and the child.”
“The prisoners in communist prisons weren’t victims, those are lies.”
“Romania’s chance is to follow Russian wisdom.”
Please study whatever mindfuck happened to us and let it never happen again. I wish this on nobody, not even the hungarians.
Just ban chinese tik tok and release european tic tac 😁
Testrun for germany eh.
Did anyone forget how many reddit subs were filled with USA election bots?
Lmao, just accept that the other candidates had a shit campaign.