Possible TikTok manipulation in Romania’s presidential race? George Simion’s videos suddenly explode in views, while Nicușor Dan’s drop

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by Forward-Cantaloupe62

23 comments

  2. I’ve been monitoring TikTok activity related to Romania’s upcoming presidential elections, and something strange is happening. I’ve attached 4 screenshots showing what looks like clear evidence of artificial view inflation on George Simion’s official TikTok account.

    Just a week or two ago, Simion’s videos were getting 500k to 2 million views. Now, many are suddenly jumping to 6-7 million views, yet likes remain at around 100k, which is an unusually low engagement rate for that scale. This kind of discrepancy suggests viewbotting or paid promotion to boost visibility artificially.

    At the same time, Nicușor Dan, Simion’s main political rival and current mayor of Bucharest, has seen a sharp and unnatural drop in his TikTok views. His videos used to regularly get 100k-200k views, sometimes over 1 million. Now he’s down to 20k-90k on most clips.

    Simion is known for using populist rhetoric and has ties to proRussian narratives, making this sudden TikTok surge even more suspicious. If this is indeed coordinated manipulation, it’s deeply concerning for the democratic process.

  3. Play the same song again. Ok, the same song again….

  4. This is truly modern epidemic, the propaganda activity on tiktok is obvious, even bot comments are elevated to the very top if anyone pay attention. Most liked comments aren’t top of the list and some obnoxious ai punchlines that never responds always top the list. On top of that AI generated videos are getting so realistic it becomes impossible to distinguish from real thing unless something absurd is said or done… Scary times

  5. chinese tik tok is helping their russian ally, what else is new. why did we drag our feet banning tiktok? EU banned plenty of things already.

  6. An attack does not have to be kinetic. I view this interference as nothing short of a direct attack by Russia/china. This is a foreign country using tools they have control of, to directly affect our future. This is not just a Romania problem, this can happen in any country in the world.

  7. Ban that propaganda site. Democracy is under attack. X too.

  8. 1) its likely but it cant be proven

    2) what would the solution be? Cancelling elections another time?

    Anyways a long term solution may be that social media with an high number of users should make the code public

  9. What an unprecedented event: some people are more viral on social media than others

  11. is anyone surprised tiktok has been pushing right-wing shit after kissing trumps ass?

  12. Eastern Europe is infected with spam bots and trolls it is actually crazy.

  13. Just annul the election results if he wins again, ez. Obviously right-wing populists can only win with the help of Russian propaganda and their popularity in no way reflects the will of the Romanian people.

  14. Romanian zoomers suddenly talking about “I’m not going to vote for the lesser of two evils” and “I can’t believe you support those Nazis in Ukraine/Israel” 🤣

  15. How TikTok isn’t band is beyond me. Simion is the president we don’t need but the one we dezerve, as sad as it is

  19. That’s exactly how it was done in the previous campaign. 

  23. We will do nothing about it, that’s the European way.

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