Program

For three days, journalists will meet other knowledgeable mediators of information from different regions of the world in Innsbruck. In conversations with colleagues and other experts, visitors find out what is going on behind the scenes of the information on international events, which is often hastily and superficially conveyed, and can contribute.

Current social, political and cultural developments are the focus of the debates, from book presentations, exhibitions, doc-films and audio features. The Journalismusfest Innsbruck opens a window to the complex present in which we live.

The Journalismusfest Innsbruck opens a window to the complex present in which we live.

Treibhaus, Turm

Romania: TikTok, Election Interference, Putin’s Influence

and the Importance of Independent Media

Conversation

Serious allegations of gigantic manipulation of the presidential elections in November 2024 in favour of the far-right candidate Călin Georgescu by a Russian network of fake accounts were initially described by the Chinese online company TikTok as “misleading and false”. Only once the EU took initiated proceedings against TikTok under the EU Digital Service Act, the corporation deemed it necessary to take the reports by intelligence services seriously. TikTok confirmed the allegations of disinformation. Romania’s foreign intelligence service describes it as “aggressive hybrid Russian actions” The Supreme Court barred Georgescu from the runoff elections. What is at stake for Romania? How can independent media survive?

Anita Bernacchia
Freelance Reporter, Brussels, Rome, Bucharest,
including for voxeurop, Linkiesta.it

Alex Gröblacher
Radio România Internațional, Bucharest

Adrian Mihălțianu
Publisher of PressOne, Bucharest

Hosted by
Nina Horaczek
Reporter in chief for Austrian weekly newspaper Falter

English and German with simultaneous interpretation

Free admission

With the aid of ERSTE Foundation Vienna

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Die Mitwirkenden

Wir freuen uns auf Journalist*innen, Wissenschaftler*innen und NGOs aus verschiedenen Regionen der Welt.

Die Schauplätze

Die Veranstaltungsorte des Festivals liegen im Zentrum von Innsbruck. Sie sind zu Fuß gut zu erreichen.

Info

Informationen über Tickets, Anreise, Unterkünfte, Öffentliche Verkehrsmittel und Aktuelles zur Region Innsbruck.

A weekend with a view

Program

Romania: TikTok, Election Interference, Putin’s Influence