End of election campaign on TikTok: Disinformation has moved into clone accounts and continues post-election
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7 October 2025 11:40
TikTok has shown in the last days of campaigning and on voting day that social media cannot be silenced: despite several accounts that disseminated misinformation being blocked, messages continued to circulate through clone accounts and content migration. AT the same time, popular influencers have quickly reappeared, while the narratives remained the same, only repackaged: loss of sovereignty, limited vote, dependence on EU, anti-PAS mobilization and, ex-post, the thesis that the elections were...
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