Declassified documents from CSAT/Romania - target of Russian hybrid actions, Georgescu's campaign - financed

The information presented by the Romanian Intelligence Service (SRI), the Foreign Intelligence Service (SIE) and the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MAI) at the meeting of the Supreme Council of National Defence (CSAT) on November 28, which were declassified on Wednesday, by President Klaus Iohannis indicate that the financing of the independent candidate Calin Georgescu's campaign on TikTok amounted to one million euros, that there were actions of a state cyber actor on the IT&C infrastructures supporting the electoral process and that Romania is a target for aggressive Russian hybrid actions, CE Report quotes Agerpres

The document presented by the MAI - General Directorate of Internal Protection shows that the specialized technical checks in the online environment and the analysis of the metric values identified in social media, mainly on the TikTok platform, in the electoral process, have validated the existence of an electoral campaign not labeled as such, in which, starting in November, a number of more than 100 influencers (who had a total of more than 8 million active followers) were subjected to a manipulation action regarding the identity of the promoted candidate.

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