Artificial Intelligence And Elections: When An Election Is Annulled Because Of TikTok
On 6 December 2024, the Constitutional Court of Romania took an unprecedented step: it annulled the first round of the country’s presidential election. Not over ballot-box fraud, nor over irregularities in the count, but because one candidate, the previously unknown Călin Georgescu, had emerged in first place through a coordinated influence operation on TikTok, with indications of foreign state involvement.
For the first time in the history of the European Union, an electoral process was annulled due to social media manipulation. The Romanian case is not an isolated incident. It is the most emblematic example of a new reality: electoral processes have become a domain of hybrid threats, in which artificial intelligence and social networks act as force multipliers for anyone seeking to influence democratic outcomes.
What has changed since 2016
When the Cambridge Analytica scandal broke in 2018, the world learned that data drawn from 87 million Facebook...
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