edit: seems that gif images don’t work, so here’s the gif:

edit2: another angle from a different TV camera: https://i.imgur.com/Jezrgss.gif (I’m not embedding it because it’s larger and one animation is enough)

For context:

Recent https://piefed.social/post/499497

Source video on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Romania/comments/1iyrln3/călin_georgescu_face_salutul_nazist_la_ieșirea_de/ from a Romanian TV (I wouldn’t call it “news”, it’s like OAN for Trump now)

Broader issue of election meddling:

https://www.sgdsn.gouv.fr/publications/manipulation-dalgorithmes-et-instrumentalisation-dinfluenceurs-enseignements-de

https://www.nato.int/docu/review/articles/2025/02/07/algorithmic-invasions-how-information-warfare-threatens-nato-s-eastern-flank/

Here’s the short gif: https://i.imgur.com/OR56MVe.gif

Not sure if this should be NSFW.

  • SplashJackson@lemmy.ca
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    5 hours ago

    I’ve killed a lot of Nazis in my day (in Wolf3D) but I gotta say that’s a bit of a stretch. I don’t know anything about this guy, or indeed Romania, so perhaps my Canadian benefit-of-the-doubt is blinding me