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How Romanians are manipulated on social media: disinformation networks
How Romanians are manipulated on social media: disinformation networks

Networks of Facebook accounts, followed by millions of Romanians, simultaneously promote messages containing sovereignist and anti-EU themes. The messages are also featured on “apolitical” pages publishing mundane or religious content. Networks that promote the same messages were identified in a comprehensive online study.

Cezar Manu
30 Apr 2025
FAKE NEWS: Facebook is censoring Igor Dodon
FAKE NEWS: Facebook is censoring Igor Dodon

The former president of the Republic of Moldova, Igor Dodon, considers that he lost the presidential elections last autumn also due to Facebook, which allegedly deleted the likes he received and blocked the accounts of his party members. Ironically, the allegations were made in a video streamed on Facebook. Dodon thus joined a wave of attacks against these networks, launched in several countries, from Russia and EU member states to the United States.