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A comment on Romanian court annuls result of presidential election first round. Parent comment

Re:Romanian court annuls result of presidential election fir... by GeoAtreides on Friday December 06, 2024 @01:56PM (#42342916)
> Russians didn't discover magic words that they use to hypnotise people and make them vote for pro-Russia candidate

Well, someone else discovered not the magic words but the magic timing of when to tell them and how to surround people with the right words: i.e. the social media algorithms.

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Re:Romanian court annuls result of presidential election fir... by newspaper1 on Friday December 06, 2024 @01:57PM (#42342934)
Don't shoot the messenger. The actual problems being pointed out are the root cause.
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Re:Romanian court annuls result of presidential election fir... by rbanffy on Friday December 06, 2024 @02:54PM (#42343638)
People were unhappy before and nothing like this happened because of it. International interference was always very difficult.
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Re:Romanian court annuls result of presidential election fir... by newspaper1 on Friday December 06, 2024 @03:19PM (#42343932)
More transparency is a good thing, even if that comes from "international interference". The problems exist, try to hide them at your own political risk.
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Re:Romanian court annuls result of presidential election fir... by rbanffy on Friday December 06, 2024 @05:43PM (#42345377)
The point is foreign election interference is no longer difficult, dangerous, or expensive, and is incredibly effective.
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Re:Romanian court annuls result of presidential election fir... by newspaper1 on Friday December 06, 2024 @05:55PM (#42345466)
It's not "dangerous" to expose the truth, even selectively. More information is better, especially when it pertains to things our government is keeping from us.
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Re:Romanian court annuls result of presidential election fir... by rbanffy on Sunday December 08, 2024 @01:08PM (#42358790)
> More information is better,

Not always, as cherry picked information is, in essence, a lie: it misrepresents reality by showing a narrow sliver of it that supports an argument that's not supported by the full set of observations.

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