17
Dec
2024
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Misinformation and disinformation on social media platforms, such as TikTok, and related risks to the integrity of elections in Europe (debate)
Mr President, the events in Romania are very worrying. On the pretext of possible foreign interference through TikTok, democratic elections were cancelled with the agreement of the Commission and in violation of the Romanian Constitution. However, interference via TikTok has not yet been established, while at the same time there has been a lot of Western political interference in the Romanian election campaign. Through its Digital Services Act, the European Commission is interfering itself in the democratic process in Romania and violating the sovereignty of that Member State with the intention of eliminating a candidate that does not suit it. Instead of censoring social media, we'd better censor the European Commission. Authoritarian and anti-democratic instruments must be abolished in the Digital Services Act. Romania must not become a precedent to allow totalitarianism on the part of the European Commission.