Digital threats to elections in European democracies | EUROtoday

Coveted by the United States of Donald Trump and Xinping China, Greenland has adopted an emergency, on February 4, a legislation meant for “Save political integrity” from the Danish autonomous territory by limiting international donations to political events and people, with a view to the legislative elections of March 11. In early February, Poland offered, for its half, a brand new program known as “electoral umbrella”, geared toward defending the presidential election, the primary spherical of which is scheduled for May 18. “Online activity will be monitored in a way that prevents any foreign interference”,, assured the Minister of Digital Affairs, Krzysztof Gawkowski, explicitly designating Russia. Taken in vice between the Russian interference and that of Elon Musk in favor of the far -right AFD occasion, Germany says it has examined digital platforms X, Tiktok and Youtube, upstream of the federal elections of Sunday, February 23, as a way to to forestall attainable threats on the event of the poll. Everywhere in Europe, panic rises.

No extra time when facade elections in autocracies attracted seems to be! It is now in the direction of the guts of democratic methods, focused by digital manipulations more and more subtle and able to modifying votes, that focus is paid. The cancellation of the second spherical of the presidential election in Romania, determined by the Constitutional Court on December 6, 2024, created an electroshock. For the primary time, a significant poll was brutally interrupted, after the emergence of a prorussian candidate in a rustic, which is basically pro-European. Propelled on the high of the outcomes on the night of the primary spherical, November 24, 2024, with 23 % of the votes (greater than 2 million), Calin Georgescu, 62, supporter of the entire cease of Romanian assist to Ukraine, had not participated in any debate, and even, in response to him, invested the slightest leu – the nationwide forex – within the marketing campaign.

The sudden reputation of the one who likes to mimic Vladimir Putin by showing within the picture working towards judo, swimming or driving a horse owes the whole lot to social networks, and particularly to the Tiktok software, very talked-about within the nation , with 9 million customers… for 19 million inhabitants. According to Romanian intelligence companies, the mix of movies related to key phrases and relayed-with hid remuneration-by greater than 100 influencers totaling greater than 8 million energetic subscribers had reached such a stage than, Between November 13 and 26, 2024, the identify “Georgescu” was positioned within the ninth^e international place of the principle traits in content material promotion. Nearly 25,000 Tiktok accounts, supported by the advice algorithm, had grow to be notably energetic throughout these two weeks.

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