Calin Georgescu, the little-known far-right politician, used TikTok to spread his anti-EU, anti-NATO message and win the first round of Romania's presidential election.

Georgescu, aka the "TikTok messiah", has been the poster boy for right-wing conspiracists ever since his startling victory in the first round of the presidential election last December was ...

Artificial intelligence was used in 80% of elections globally last year, scientists say; more than two-thirds of those uses ...

Calin Georgescu, a little-known, far-right populist, clinched the most votes and advanced to the second round to face off against reformist Elena Lasconi of the progressive Save Romania Union party.

Covert TikTok campaign blamed in pro-Russian Romanian candidate’s surge Presidential hopeful rose from obscurity to win first round of election thanks to social media campaign the government ...

Georgescu had cheated, Romania’s intelligence agency now said — his campaign had colluded with Russia, which had run a vast disinformation campaign on, it turned out, TikTok.

The video app TikTok is said to have played a role in this: The far-right and pro-Russian presidential candidate Calin Georgescu had been massively promoted via TikTok with the help of coordinated ...

TikTok is facing scrutiny over election interference after a little known far-right populist in Romania won the first round of a presidential election.

Former Romanian presidential candidate Călin Georgescu was indicted on Wednesday for endorsing fascist propaganda, according ...

After his first-round victory, another TikTok account solely featuring Georgescu content, which had 1.7 million likes, appeared to have been deleted.