La Roumanie confrontée à une vague de fake news à l'approche du second tour de la présidentielle
Les analystes estiment que les acteurs de la désinformation continuent de semer la division et la méfiance à l'approche du second tour de l'élection présidentielle, qui aura lieu dimanche.
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Les analystes estiment que les acteurs de la désinformation continuent de semer la division et la méfiance à l'approche du second tour de l'élection présidentielle, qui aura lieu dimanche.
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00:00Roumania grapples with disinformation ahead of the presidential runoff.
00:07Roumanian voters face a deluge of disinformation
00:10as they prepare to choose between centrist Niku Sjordan
00:14and ultra-nationalist Georges Simeon
00:16in a presidential runoff on Sunday.
00:18The election was first held back in November
00:20but annulled after this man, Kalin Georgescu,
00:23allegedly received Russian support
00:25to coordinate the TikTok campaign
00:27that swept him to a first-round victory.
00:30There is still no undeniable public evidence to confirm Russia's involvement.
00:34Ahead of Sunday's runoff, Euroverify identified a raft of disinformation on TikTok.
00:40They include claims of massive electoral fraud.
00:43This video alleges that diaspora votes are being doubled
00:46to skew the vote in favour of pro-EU candidate Niku Sjordan.
00:50Some politicians also allege
00:52there are as many as 2 million deceased people still on the electoral lists,
00:56a claim Romania's Interior Ministry has refuted.
01:00We also sow claims the election will be cancelled again
01:03despite there being no evidence to support this.
01:06Romanian fact-checkers say the claim was first made
01:09on a sanctioned pro-Cremlin publication
01:11and is intended to suppress the vote.
01:14Analysts say disinformation actors are sowing conspiracies and distrust in Romania,
01:18which is vulnerable to hybrid warfare
01:20due to its geographical position on Europe's eastern flank.
01:24The cancellation of the initial votes is also feeding into a wider sense of distrust in public institutions.
01:31The cancellation itself has eroded public confidence even more in democratic stability.
01:37And obviously it's very easy now to exploit narratives related to that of state incompetence or state corruption.
01:45The French Cyber Security Agency has said Romania remains vulnerable to electoral interference in this electoral rerun.
01:52And that European countries such as France also face similar threats.
01:57and that European countries such as France also face similar to the electoral order to the electoral granting
01:59the electoral votes of theenaient
02:16report to the referendum.