MADRID, Spain.- Twitter reported this Monday that it will not recommend or amplify among users the accounts or publications of official media of the Cuban regime, as it had announced in August 2020.
Among the media labeled by Twitter as “affiliated with the Government” of Cuba are Cubadebate, Radio Rebelde, Radio Habana Cuba, Gramna, Workers, Rebel Youth Y Caribbean Channel.
The island’s authorities, who have not been slow to react, described this action by the social network as a form of “censorship and stigmatization of the country’s public media.”
Edilberto Carmona, who manages the social network profiles of Cubadebatesaid to Cubajournalists that the decision “is part of an attempt to classify the media that they consider ‘democratic,’ and influence public opinion from their positions of power.”
“It is ironic that they recognize the existence of large media with these characteristics, such as the BBC or NPR, but that they do not receive these labels, due to their ‘editorial independence,’” he added.
According to Cubajournalists“the methodology that Twitter uses to parameterize `government-affiliated media’ is discretionary, with nothing to explain why it labels some of the world’s government media this way, not all (or most) of the state media or government, nor to those who receive most of their resources from governments to function, some violating the laws of third countries.
According to Twitter’s policy, state-affiliated media outlets are defined as outlets where the state exercises control over editorial content through financial resources, direct or indirect political pressure, or control over production and distribution.
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