Twitter tagged several major Cuban media accounts as “attached to the governmentwhich sparked protests on Monday from the country’s news portal and leader. Official media accounts such as, among others, the daily newspapers Granma, Tribuna de La Habana or Juventud Rebelde, the Cuban news agency Agencia Cubana de Noticias or the portal Cubadebate have been tagged “government-owned mediaby the platform.
“#Twitter pejoratively labels media outlets that do not support imperialist discoursetweeted Cubadebate director Randy Alonso Falcon. “It should not be forgotten that this social network operates in cooperation with the CIA, MI6 and the State Department“. Cubadebate condemned the measure in an article that “censors and stigmatizes the country’s public media“and”influences potential recipients and readers of tagged media tweets“. We are talking about “New evidence of algorithm manipulation to make some media less visible than othersRogelio Polanco, head of the ideology department of the Communist Party of Cuba, wrote on Twitter.
Twitter has committed to posting this notice in 2020 when it deems that the country concerned “controls the editorial content“. In Cuba’s socialist system, all means of communication are public. There are independent media that are tolerated but considered illegal.
Source: Le Figaro
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