EU starts investigation of TikTok over Romanian election interference

The European Union started an investigation of TikTok over suspicions that it didn’t do enough to stop fake accounts and foreign powers from interfering with last month’s Romanian presidential election.

The probe will look at whether the short-video app failed to prevent bad actors from manipulating its recommendation system and if it appropriately labeled political content under the bloc’s Digital Services Act, the European Commission said in a statement on Tuesday.