Video sharing app TikTok has made internal changes in a bid to protect the May Romanian presidential election from foreign interference after the European Commission opened a probe into the platform last December, EU Tech Commissioner Henna Virkkunen told lawmakers of the European Parliament’s Internal Market and Consumer Protection committee (IMCO) on Monday.
“Regarding the upcoming election in Romania in May, we welcome the changes TikTok has made. This includes 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.
