Czech Researchers Identify Nearly 300 Pro-Russian TikTok Accounts Ahead of Elections

Online Risk Labs, a Prague-based network of analysts, reported that it had identified 286 accounts spreading [pro-Russian] propaganda in the run-up to the October 3–4 parliamentary elections. The group estimates the accounts collectively draw between 5 and 9 million weekly views—an audience larger than the combined reach of the country’s mainstream party leaders.

The TikTok pages in question promoted the far-right Freedom and Direct Democracy party (SPD), polling around 13 percent, and the far-left Stačilo! party, which hovers just above the 5 percent threshold required for seats in parliament. Both parties call for Czechia’s withdrawal from NATO and the European Union.