Despite the false claims, the TikTok video, a clip from a longer interview by Georgescu on state-run TV, proved popular, with 5.1 million views and more than 213,000 likes.

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 ...

Georgescu, who was virtually unknown before the election, catapulted from obscurity thanks in part to his viral TikTok videos. The win secured Georgescu a place in a runoff vote scheduled for ...

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

Many observers attributed Georgescu’s success to his TikTok account, which has 4.3 million likes and 679,000 followers. He gained huge traction and popularity in the weeks leading up to the ...

TikTok appears to have played a major role in Georgescu's success. The short-video platform is very popular in Romania: About nine million of the country's 19 million inhabitants, especially young ...

Georgescu, a 62-year-old independent candidate who used to work for the United Nations, surged to prominence during the campaign with the help of TikTok, where his account gained 5.1 million likes ...

Some 25,000 TikTok accounts were used to boost Georgescu's popularity, with influencers on the platform enlisted to publicly support him and indirectly promote him with posts that included ...

Romania’s central election authority barred far-right candidate Calin Georgescu from competing in May’s presidential election re-run, not the European Union, contrary to misleading posts online.

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.