The app TikTok made internal changes in a bid to protect the May Romanian presidential election from foreign interference, EU Tech Commissioner Henna Virkkunen announced, IPN reports.

“The changes include better detection and labelling of political accounts and more Romanian language experts, and an additional 120 experts to the Romanian election task force working especially on covert influence campaigns and advertising integrity”, Virkkunen said, quoted by Euronews.

The first round of the Romanian election last November was invalidated on the basis of intelligence reports which allegedly showed Russian involvement in voter influence through social media to support the then-relatively unknown nationalist candidate Călin Georgescu.

Following the reports, the European Commission in December began a probe into the role of the platform during the campaign to check whether it breached the Digital Services Act (DSA) in relation to risk assessment and election integrity. The outcome of the case is still pending.

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