Vice president of Romanian telecom and media regulator ANCOM hits back at Elon Musk
Pavel Popescu, the vice president of media regulator ANCOM, said in an interview with Politico published March 24 that Romania is fighting an information war with Russia to stop election meddling, and not censoring speech, as many US…
Radu Dumitrescu · Journalist
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Pavel Popescu, the vice president of media regulator ANCOM, said in an interview with Politico published March 24 that Romania is fighting an information war with Russia to stop election meddling, and not censoring speech, as many US officials and figures like Elon Musk have said.
The Politico article names Romania “ground zero in a global struggle over how speech is regulated online” after its Constitutional Court scrapped the 2024 presidential elections following the win of pro-Russian ultranationalist Călin Georgescu in the first round. The same politician has been barred from running in the do-over election scheduled for May.
