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Author: Madalina Voina Credits: CONTEXT, PROMPT Following elections in Moldova, we see surprise reactions in public space related to the apparent performance of Vasile Costiuc’s Home Democracy Party – a party in polls placed below the 5% parliamentary threshold in Moldova, somewhere between 1.8-3%. We recall the small but efficient infrastructure identified for Vasile Costiuc from August 2025 on TikTok: 16 million views and 422,000 follow-up and 31.000 distributions from August 1st to September 28th. Let us remember that we are talking about a country with 2.3 million citizens and that the way the TikTok platform calculates these figures is unclear, at least in terms of the equation a view = a play count. We don’t believe in unique causes that influence elections. The electoral result is always the product of a multitude of interconnected factors, not a single campaign on TikTok. But we think it’s important to remember one of the factors that is increasingly affecting the integrity of elections: online electoral campaigns. In this respect, accounts under the pseudonym, some with a high level of 1 defined as identical / similar videos, with the same messages, which share their followers with suspects themselves (empty accounts,…
