TikTok in hot water over Romanian elections
‘We are getting fed up’: EU lawmakers snap at TikTok over Romanian election:
For years, the Chinese-owned social media app has brushed off security concerns in the United States and Europe that it could be used for mass manipulation and espionage. It now faces an intense regulatory storm in Bucharest over whether it played a role in skewing the democratic process in an EU country and NATO member of 19 million people. [….] “Honestly speaking, we are getting fed up by the documents and the empty promises,” Swedish center-right European lawmaker Arba Kokalari said near the end of the hearing.
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