@Aussiemandeus well, that’s a fair point. We do have a state authority (CNA) who should deal with misinformation and poor reporting, but it was politically infiltrated (and still is) and did not bat an eye at everything that was said on TV at stations that are pretty much affiliated with certain parties. There’s this station called Romania TV which pretty much takes all the most mainstream online conspiracies and gives them air time.
In addition we have some intelligence services who we don’t know what they were doing all this time, but who enjoyed poor state control and being politically affiliated as well (having been given a lot of power in the previous decade). What did they do with this Russian interference that was clear to appear? I don’t know.
So yeah. TikTok played a big role, but it was not the only one. They could see it coming. But they didn’t do anything.
Yeah so a failing of regulation i guess. Either way it’s not great, I just think it’s short sighted to blame a platform when there is a larger problem at play.
Governments need to protect their democratic processes with the same ferver that those who seek to undermine it display.
I guess it’s hard to be the democratic “good” government and still impose harsh punishments and expectations on citizens without being labled some form of “evil”
@Aussiemandeus well, that’s a fair point. We do have a state authority (CNA) who should deal with misinformation and poor reporting, but it was politically infiltrated (and still is) and did not bat an eye at everything that was said on TV at stations that are pretty much affiliated with certain parties. There’s this station called Romania TV which pretty much takes all the most mainstream online conspiracies and gives them air time.
In addition we have some intelligence services who we don’t know what they were doing all this time, but who enjoyed poor state control and being politically affiliated as well (having been given a lot of power in the previous decade). What did they do with this Russian interference that was clear to appear? I don’t know.
So yeah. TikTok played a big role, but it was not the only one. They could see it coming. But they didn’t do anything.
@iagomago
Yeah so a failing of regulation i guess. Either way it’s not great, I just think it’s short sighted to blame a platform when there is a larger problem at play.
Governments need to protect their democratic processes with the same ferver that those who seek to undermine it display.
I guess it’s hard to be the democratic “good” government and still impose harsh punishments and expectations on citizens without being labled some form of “evil”