MIAMI, United States.- Several Cubans welcome the purchase of Twitter by Elon Musk, considered the richest man in the world and owner of Tesla, and consider that this may be a turning point in how the content generated in the Internet is positioned. the island.
Musk, who bought Twitter this Monday after several weeks in negotiations for 44 billion dollarsassured a few days ago that if his idea of acquiring the platform materialized, one of the changes he had in mind was to create a campaign to eliminate the bots.
A bot, widely used by the Cuban government, is a program used in social networks to automatically generate messages from accounts and profiles on social networks. The bots publish content permanently, in many cases considered spam, or garbage.
However, Musk’s idea is very attractive to Cuban activist Saily González, who assures that this would allow “we tweeters themselves to be the ones who position our own content and our hashtags organically.”
González assured CubaNet that bots are generally the ones used in Cuba to position some government campaigns on the social network, such as #VamosConTodo, a hashtag that tries to counteract the reach that #SOSCuba had last year.
For his part, for fellow Twitter user Magdiel Jorge Castro, this is very good news, “because Twitter is a platform where we Cubans have been able to make a trend,” and it has also been key in the Cuban civic struggle.
Jorge Castro explained that bots are not only used in Cuba to position content but also to attack activists. This is something that also happens in other dictatorships in the region such as Nicaragua and Venezuela, he said.
These bots, he pointed out, are divided into those that are completely mechanized and those that are people who behave like bots, who only interact on the social network to retweet publications from the Government or specific institutions.
At the end of 2020, the company closed more than 500 accounts on the platform that were associated with the Cuban regime, including that of the University Student Federation (FEU).
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