May 26, 2025. Viralized topics on the net in the last 24 hours

The election process is still in full swing, with maximum attention on the actions of Romania's new president, but social media audiences are also interested in regional and global developments.

The conclusions below refer to the top 100 viral headlines by volume of interactions generated on Facebook in the previous day, reflecting the dominant interests of the Romanian online audience.

The most widely reflected theme concerns the activity and image of the president-elect, Nicușor Dan, who has dominated public interest through several recent actions or messages. First of all, his participation in the election rally in Poland, where he gave a speech in support of the pro-European candidate, was intensely commented and analyzed [Stirile PROTV, epochtimes-romania.com, Digi 24, aktual24.ro]. Secondly, the message sent on the occasion of the Day of Romanians Abroad was widely distributed, with promises of more active institutional involvement in support of the diaspora [PROTV news, Antena3, Digi 24]. Thirdly, the statement on the progress made by Romania in its relations with the United States of America attracted attention, but was taken up to a lesser extent [epochtimes-romania.com].

Interest in geopolitics was also entertained by themes related to security and international alliances. US Vice President JD Vance's speech defining the lines of American foreign policy [Realitatea], Bloomberg's analysis of European military purchases in the perspective of a withdrawal of US support [mariustuca.ro], and the multiple reports about the attacks on Ukraine [biziday.ro, Stirile PROTV, Libertatea], suggest that the Romanian public is closely following the dynamics of war and its impact on global balances.

Some headlines reflected older or newer statements by current or former secret service officials, such as Silviu Predoiu [Realitatea], or Nicolas Lerner, director of France's DGSE [mariustuca.ro].

Finally, education has been present in the viral space through the statement of Minister Daniel David on the large number of children excluded from compulsory education [Digi 24].

ARTICLES WITH RIDICULOUS VIRALITY

1. Nicușor Dan says Romania is making progress in relations with the US [EPOCHTIMES-ROMANIA.COM]
2. Romania's President-elect Nicușor Dan, special message for Romanians in diaspora: "Keep the Romanian language" [PROTV NEWS]
3. And the state watches over us with its eyes wide shut [REPUBLICA.RO]
4. Top 10 most disliked politicians in 2025 [REPUBLICA.RO]
5. In front of tens of thousands of Poles, Nicușor Dan gave a moving speech in Romanian, ending in Polish [PROTV NEWS]
6. DW: Hungarians and Moldovans saved democracy in Romania. "They didn't swallow political nonsense" [PROTV NEWS]
7. Nicușor Dan, message in Polish in Warsaw: Last week Romania won, next week Poland will win [ANTENA3]
8. "The miracle" of Rădăuți. The settlement that has saved hundreds of abandoned children: "I always asked them to keep their heads held high" [PROTV NEWS]
9. Here's what stopping the gay march in Georgia looks like. Cross-bearing priests and tens of thousands of Orthodox took to the streets in 11 cities to defend the family [THE ORTHODOX DEFENDER]
11. J.D. Vance, historic speech on new Trump administration doctrine: The era of unchallenged U.S. dominance is over! - VIDEO [REALITY]

***** Synthesis made with the help of a monitoring feed provided by the NewsVibe Romania, team based on several online monitoring software. The top viral links are measured based on the number of interactions generated on Facebook by topics from the Romanian online press. Virality is measured by the cumulative number of likes, comments and shares obtained by various links over the course of a day.

We can observe, every time, that the virality of a link is not directly proportional to the overall impact of an online source. Often, links coming from local sources, or niche pages can get significantly more interactions than traditional media sources.

The analysis, data and images presented have been enhanced using Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence tools.