Maria Chiara Pievatolo<em><a href="https://xcancel.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1865246209339986002#m" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Audiatur et altera pars</a></em>. <p>"In effect, when we strip away all the veneer, what just happened in <a href="https://poliversity.it/tags/Romania" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Romania</span></a> is that you had the country's top court cancel an entire presidential election because of the existence of a coordinated social media campaign on TikTok that the intelligence services claimed - without concrete evidence - resembled Russian tactics."</p>
<p>In Italy, I put up with <a href="https://poliversity.it/tags/Berlusconi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Berlusconi</span></a> for many years, despite his direct or indirect control of television, because I believed that in a democracy people should not be treated as children, although they voted for the wrong candidate, if there remains a (somehow) free public sphere where I can show people that their choice is wrong.</p>
<p>Was there absolutely no freedom of the press in Romania to expose (allegedly) ambiguous social media campaigns?</p>