An attempt by the popular video-sharing app to assuage European Union lawmakers' concerns backfired on Tuesday, as company executives faced hostile — and at times furious — politicians questioning its role in ultranationalist Călin Georgescu's win in the recent first-round of Romania's presidential election.

A far-right independent candidate called Călin Georgescu is leading the race to become Romanias next president. He took a shock lead in the first round of voting by securing 22.9% of the vote, followed by

TikTok took down several networks allegedly trying to meddle in Romania’s elections, executives said Tuesday as they defended the company’s election integrity measures to European Union lawmakers

TikTok defended its election integrity measures to European Union lawmakers after the platform took down several networks that tried to meddle in Romania's elections, executives said Tuesday. In a tense session before EU officials on Tuesday,