Brussels has opened a formal probe into TikTok for breaching the EU’s digital rules when it failed to “properly assess and mitigate systemic risks” over the way “foreign actors” allegedly used the social media platform to interfere in Romania’s recent elections.
The investigation was triggered by a complaint from Romania’s national media watchdog after Călin Georgescu, a pro-Vladimir Putin candidate, went viral on the Chinese platform and unexpectedly topped the first round of the presidential vote last month.
Romanian authorities said Moscow had sought to undermine the polls and a court cancelled the second round of the election.
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