Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez denounced on Friday the manipulation and double standards of transnational consortiums such as Meta in operations against the largest Antillean island.
In his official Twitter profile, the foreign minister pointed out that this company is in charge of its policies with the former campaign manager of an anti-Cuban Republican senator.
He pointed out that Meta ideologically biases its recent report on "Adversary Threats", which announces an alleged network of coordinated inauthentic behavior in Cuba, associated to the Government.
According to the text, referring to the fourth quarter of 2022, Meta eliminated 363 Facebook accounts, 270 Pages, 229 Groups and 72 accounts on Instagram with links to the alleged operations, and also maintains that around $100 in advertising investment was used in them.
In another message, Rodriguez added that said advertising service is inaccessible to Cuba because of Washington's economic, commercial and financial blockade.
"The Meta company, instead of using this argument, should explain its own inauthentic and biased behavior by allowing denigrating, stigmatizing and generating hate campaigns from Florida against the Antillean nation," the head of Cuban diplomacy emphasized.
He added that despite attempts to censor Cuba's voice and make the truth invisible, Cubans will continue to defend the Revolution and its socialist system of social justice, also in the digital arena, in the face of harassment and destabilizing operations.
Last November 3, at the United Nations General Assembly, the minister asserted that on October 24, 2022, the U.S. transnationals Twitter and Meta, simultaneously, deployed censorship actions against Cuban public media and users.
"They tagged publications that have seen their reach in the networks limited and eliminated accounts critical of the destabilizing operations against our country. It was a selective, coordinated action that violates the right to free expression of Cubans and expresses the subordination of these companies to the arbitrariness of U.S. politicians," he said.
During the month of December, the Twitter Files confirmed that U.S. intelligence agencies, the Pentagon, the State Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation have direct influence in the censorship against Cuban users on social networks.