By: Cubadebate Newsroom
July 12, 2021
The renowned Spanish analyst Julián Macías Tovar has broken down the intense campaign articulated on digital social networks against the Cuban Revolution in recent days. It was launched from abroad and has had as its reference the Argentine Agustín Antonelli, a political operator of the right who has participated in several operations against the processes of the left in Latin America.
The operation made intensive use of robots, algorithms and accounts recently created for the occasion, with the aim of harmonizing the messages issued by the referents of the manipulative campaign.
The first account that used the HT #SOSCuba related to the situation of COVID in the country was one located in Spain. It posted more than a thousand tweets on both July 10 and 11, with an automation of 5 retweets per second.
The researcher points out as one of the referents of the operation the Argentine Agustín Antonetti, who is part of the right-wing Fundación Libertad. Antonetti has been an active participant in the hoaxes and bots campaigns on social networks against the processes of the left in Latin America, among them against that of the Bolivian Evo Morales and the Mexican Andrés Manuel López Obrador, as previous investigations revealed, based on the sanction that Facebook applied to numerous accounts for political operations in the networks.
Tovar points out in his diligent investigation that campaigns were made for artists to participate with a tweet with HT #SOSCuba, due to deaths from COVID and lack of medical resources.To do this, a tweet was launched that received more than 1,100 responses. One striking thing is that if you analyze those responses, almost all come from newly created accounts, or are no more than one year old. More than 1,500 accounts of which participated in the operation with the hashtag #SOSCuba were created between July 10 and 11
The international media took charge after making the campaign articulated with the artists visible
On Sunday, July 11, with hundreds of thousands of tweets and the participation of many artist accounts, the label became a worldwide trend and in several countries, at which point the first demonstration in San Antonio de los Baños published from the United States took place. United by the account of the named Yusnaby with thousands of RTs. As Tovar points out: "Curiously Yusnaby (US Navy) is the account that comes out the most by far in my threads, because it is one of the patterns of automated fake accounts that spread hoaxes and hate campaigns. If you look for my @ + Yusnaby you will find infinite ".
The network analyst reveals that when analyzing the label of the campaign, the most noticeable thing is the repetition of exact tweets, which denotes the existence of automated patterns with hundreds of thousands of tweets and a similar number of followed and followers, by the automated system gain of followers.
Another of the highly visible elements of the operation is the massive use of registration accounts, with matrices that are very common in other international campaigns such as the Bolivian coup, or the active presence of vocalists from the Latin American right such as Tertsch, Cabal and Tuto Quiroga.
Tovar also denounces the use of manipulated images or events in other countries and the articulation of the operation of networks with various right-wing media on the continent.
The three phases of the operation against Cuba
The first phase was to launch the campaign with the HT denouncing the collapse of the health system due to COVID cases and deaths requesting help through false and automated accounts that massively mentioned artists from all over the world, many of them participated using the HT , leading the HT to be a world TT.
The second phase was to publish in the media that dozens of artists joined a campaign to ask for a humanitarian corridor to save the situation in Cuba, just as they tried to do in Venezuela, a situation that normally only occurs in military conflicts, especially when Cuba has figures 15 times better than countries like Spain, Ecuador or the US, or 40 times better than Peru, where this type of campaign was not carried out.
The third phase are demonstrations in principle with few people, but with a HT being a world TT with maximum repercussion that helped them grow and with a final campaign by a part of those who coordinated the campaign to request a military invasion of the United States. .
The investigation confirms the Cuban authorities' complaint that it is a concerted operation in the digital public space, to which "considerable resources are devoted, it is not something improvised. It is something very well designed, structures and agencies of the United States. with laboratories dedicated to creating these conditions and achieving their objectives ”.
See the entire thread of this painstaking investigation:
https://twitter.com/JulianMaciasT/status/1414681678539378691
On video, another of the operators of the conspiracy against Cuba
Rosa María Payá, owner of the Foundation for Pan-American Democracy, played a leading role in organizing the events last Sunday in Cuba. What interests does she promote and whom does she defend? Journalist Juan José del Castillo responds to these questions on his Alternative Press YouTube channel.
https://youtu.be/tiiuzF6MazM