Facebook’s Role in Electoral Manipulation Using Nostalgic Communist Memories @PressHub.ro

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After the annulment of the presidential elections by the Constitutional Court, Facebook was flooded with numerous religious and conservative pages boasting hundreds of thousands of followers, promoting communist nostalgia. Most of these pages have multiple administrators from Romania and across the globe. Conspiracy theories blended with an idealized view of life under communism align perfectly with the electoral profile of Călin Georgescu, a pro-Russian candidate who seemingly emerged from nowhere. He came first in the November 24 presidential elections, which were later annulled by the Romanian Constitutional Court due to allegations of voter influence by a foreign nation. These pages… Read More

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