HARRISONBURG, United States. – In cubadebate —the grotto of the Taliban of Castroism— Randy Alonso Falcón published this Saturday, February 25, an article entitled Cuba: A false goal in Zuckerberg & CIAwhose initial paragraph ends with the word “possible”, which does not exist in our language.
The well-known spokesman for the dictatorship complains that last October the space he occupied was closed Cuban reasons and that “other spaces and personal accounts were closed suddenly, without prior notification or possibilities of claim, among them the page of Raúl Capote, editor of the international page of Granma”.
He mentions that on that date the social network Twitter labeled some Cuban media outlets as affiliated with the Cuban government, an action that, according to him, censors and stigmatizes the country’s public media outlets. In his introductory lamentations —the tantrum consists of a longaniza of paragraphs— he also stated that several days later several accounts associated with cubadebatelike the ones in the program with edge, Squaring the Box and chappingsomething that he assures is a planned action to curtail the presence in the media networks, professionals and supporters of what he calls Revolution.
In the article itself it is mentioned that the reasons for this procedure are found in the report “Report of Adversary Threats. Fourth quarter of 2022”, which reports the removal of three Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior (CIB) networks located in Serbia, Cuba and Bolivia, targeting people in their own countries through various services on the Internet and linked to governments or political parties in power.
He report bases Meta’s decision because the operations of those sites are aimed at local audiences in that country and the Cuban diaspora abroad and because it was evident that, by using those Internet services, they intended to create the perception of broad support for the Cuban regime, or which is the same, distort reality.
Among the acts committed by those official sites and denounced in the Meta report are “the publication in Spanish of videos, audio clips, articles, photos and memes that criticized members of the opposition and those who have questioned the government, including to members of the Cuban diaspora in the United States and elsewhere.”
In addition to detecting cynicism —an inseparable hindrance of the Cuban official discourse—, in Randy’s statement that the Cuban news media are public, his article also reiterates information manipulation schemes, perhaps caused this time by the impotence of knowing that they are insulting. of capitalism and, concomitantly, dependent on its services.
The reality is that although they claim that socialism is superior to capitalism, the communists have been unable to create their own networks and impose their content. So, spokesmen like this one want to use “the services and means of the enemy” for their work of sapping.
We must not forget that the plans of the international left have been very well coordinated and thought out for decades and that it is not by chance that regimes such as those of Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Iran, North Korea, Iran, Syria, China and Russia act jointly trying to present as valid what is actually a distortion of universal values. We are immersed in a fight where the unfair and abnormal tries to establish itself as a canon, and the networks do not escape the struggle.
Democracies have every right to defend themselves against totalitarianism and its methods, such as terrorism and media manipulation, much more so if they are the owners of the services where hate messages are intended to be established, discrediting citizens who receive crushing attacks without have the least chance of a public response or be able to resort to a legal process to claim against those who offend or threaten them. They have every right to defend themselves against these actions and prevent Trojan horses from being implanted within them that tend to end their freedoms.
If Randy Alonso Falcón, Humberto López, Michel Torres Corona, Raúl Capote and “Guerrero Cubano” feel offended because these spaces have been closed to them due to the violation of elementary norms of respect for others, what will not be the magnitude of the offense that the Cuban dictatorship imposes daily on its citizens, who can never access their “public” media to make their points of view known? Because those media only serve the communist party.
Contrary to the reaction of the spokesman for the dictatorship have been those of several Cubans who have suffered this type of attack directed by State Security.
In a report from the information service of Radio Television Martí published this week, the Havana activist Adelth Bonne expressed his satisfaction upon learning of the closure of these sites, since he has been the victim of attacks by some of them, such as “Cubano universal”, “Guerrero cubano”, “La página de Carlos” and “Red Cloud”. Adelth affirmed that “Red Cloud” published his phone number in a post by “Revolico” —a very popular buying and selling site in Cuba — reporting that he was selling dollars, an action that presents him as a criminal for denigrate it and, incidentally, creates the conditions to repress it “legally”.
Yunia Figueredo, a resident of Havana, affirmed that from some of these places she has even received death threats.
Norge Rodríguez, director of the independent medium “YucaByte”, specialized in telecommunications, activism and violations of human rights in the virtual environment, told Radio Television Martí that “the regime uses technologies based on repression and that it is significant that this time emphasis was placed – by META – on some of these accounts intended to threaten or annoy opponents.”
This META action should not remain a simple skirmish no matter how much the dictatorship’s spokesmen shout and tear their clothes.
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