BUCHAREST, Romania — TikTok took down several networks that tried to meddle in Romania’s elections, executives said Tuesday as they defended the company’s election integrity measures to ...

With 1.3 million followers, a Donald Trump-supporting far-right candidate is riding a wave of popularity on TikTok ahead of the re-run of Romania's presidential election in which he is expected to ...

Romania's defense council says TikTok's algorithm fueled the rise of a far-right candidate. TikTok denied the claim that it ...

BUCHAREST -- In Romania, at least, Bogdan Peschir was known as the "king of TikTok," a mystery man involved in cryptocurrency operations and noted for his generous donations to the platform’s users.

TikTok is facing scrutiny in Romania for election interference. Romania's defense council says TikTok's algorithm fueled the rise of a far-right candidate. TikTok denied the claim that it treated ...

TikTok took heavy fire from the European Commission Tuesday afternoon, with the company’s top lobbyist facing tough questions about its role in the sudden rise of an ultranationalist Romanian ...

Instead, TikTok suspended some accounts that drew the most views for a video, but left up others spreading the same one. Some accounts were deleted only after the first round of voting.

Like elsewhere, TikTok's popularity has skyrocketed in Romania. In February 2019, there were just 175,000 TikTok users between the ages of 14 and 65. By the start of 2024, that figure had ...

Romania has the largest share of per capita TikTok users in Europe, with roughly half of its 19 million population being users of the app, according to data from the World Population Review.

If the first round of the presidential election was proof that TikTok can defeat mainstream media, then the second round will test that proposition almost literally: before entering politics, Lasconi ...