Worldview: Attacks include sabotage, assassinations, parcel bombs, cyber attacks, electoral interference, social media disinformation campaigns and the testing of military preparedness
Far-right presidential candidate Calin Georgescu speaks to the media following the annulment of the Romania n presidential election, after a spate of intelligence documents claiming"massive" social media promotion and cyber attacks by Russia .
Malachy Clerkin: Shamrock Rovers’ European adventure one of the best stories of the Irish sporting yearmassively stepped up its long-running social-media disinformation campaigns to back proxy candidates and bribe voters in three former Soviet states. These states are regarded in Moscow as its “near abroad” sphere of influence: impoverished, both EU applicants, and member-state Romania.
According to the intelligence reports, $381,000 was spent to promote Georgescu on some 25,000 TikTok accounts without being marked as campaigning material as required both by TikTok’s own rules and Romanian election law.
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