Since April 4 and the start of the official campaign for the Romanian presidential election of May 4 and 18, the social networks of this Eastern European country have been invaded by coded messages with little understandable content for ordinary people. Any message that can be assimilated to “Political advertising material” must indeed be followed by two codes, one designating the candidate he supports, the other indicating if it is a sponsored advertising.
For example, in his tweet posted Tuesday, April 15, to denounce the “Globalist elites that have completely lost contact with reality”George Simion, the nationalist candidate who races in the lead in the polls, had to add “Material advertar Politic
/CMF 31250007/CPP A0B0C1D1E1 ”. The CMF code designates its campaign, the CPP code informs that its party has paid to promote the spread of this message, but that it has not specifically targeted certain Internet users …
Political messages that do not respect these rules risk deleting “In less than five hours”According to the exceptional electoral legislation adopted by the Romanian authorities in January, in January, to avoid the rehearsal of the disaster of the previous presidential election in November 2024. This had been canceled between the two towers by the Constitutional Court, after the discovery of a vast operation of manipulation of Tiktok, for the benefit of the candidate Prorusse Calin Georgescu. The latter had arrived at the top of the first round, without having ever campaigned in the real world.
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Source: Lemonde