The question of the influence of big technology has reached Europe and, specifically, Spain. Coinciding with the vote on European funds in the Congress of Deputies, the social network Twitter blocked the official Vox account. Many of the party leaders of Santiago Abascal they have denounced this censorship.
The same day and at the same time that the PP, with its subsidized media, launches a gross disinformation campaign against VOX, this social network @TwitterEspana censors our official account @vox_es preventing us from launching our message and explaining our positions.
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– Santiago Abascal ???????? (@Santi_ABASCAL) January 28, 2021
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In the program It’s Federico’s Morning of esRadio the spokeswoman for Vox in the Congress of Deputies, Macarena Olona, has pointed out that “the same day, at the same time that the PP launches a campaign against Vox, it turns out that Twitter censors the main Vox account for six days, and makes it impossible for us to launch our messages during a campaign.”
In this sense, he has criticized the influence of these large companies on public opinion. He also spoke of the person in charge of his social networks, the deputy Manuel Mariscal, and has said that “it has been preparing them for what was to come”. According to Olona, this anticipation “has allowed us to have registered months ago a parliamentary initiative to create a subcommittee for Ana Pastor to appear and the ‘great verifiers’ who create the official truth. This subcommittee is pending authorization. “
It has also announced that they will “present a bill similar to the one Poland is preparing in order to limit this ability that Big Tech is claiming to replace the sovereignty of parliaments. “
Vox, which is one of the fastest growing parties in social networks, has harshly criticized how these companies have censored Trump and his followers while “maintaining accounts like those of Maduro, Otegi or Podemos.”
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