The PSOE shields its Twitter channel from criticism amid a wave of socialist scandals

"Spain responds." This is the headline in bold on the Twitter account of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE).

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However, the party led by Pedro Sánchez seems not to like Spaniards responding to its messages. Yesterday morning, while El Mundo (one of the most widely read Spanish newspapers) published a series of WhatsApp messages between Sánchez and former minister Ábalos, who was charged in November by the Supreme Court with four corruption offenses, the Socialists decided to forget their slogan of "Spain responds" and the PSOE Twitter account closed the responses to their messages, allowing replies only to the accounts they mention. Here you can see the video capture I made of their latest messages:

Éste es el partido del presidente del gobierno de España. Curioso. pic.twitter.com/DoYJLfeOTH

— Elentir (@elentirvigo) May 13, 2025

This option of closing replies is common among some users when they receive an avalanche of criticism or attacks or suffer harassment from trolls on that social network. But the fact that an individual user does it is not the same as the fact that a political party does it. Seeing the party of the Prime Minister of Spain doing this is very curious and revealing, and it shows how overwhelmed the PSOE feels by criticism.

A measure that the PSOE takes amid a wave of socialist scandals

Obviously, this measure by the PSOE on Twitter makes it clear that criticism of that party on its channel is over. The socialists are returning to the days when communication was one-way. Of course, as a Twitter user, that party has the right to close comments, but it looks quite bad that this is done by a party that is in the government of Spain and that has already presented measures worthy of dictatorships to control the free media, as a way to confront the constant corruption scandals of the socialists that are making headlines in Spain.

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This measure is revealing about the government's plans. Let's remember that in January Sánchez harshly criticized social media. In the message in which he released the video of his intervention, the PSOE stated: "Social media is eroding the democratic system throughout the world." The arguments to support this were surreal: "They simplify and polarize public debate", said the socialists, forgetting that they have been promoting this degradation of public debate because it was in their interest. "They promote the spread of misinformation", they added, a statement that is laughable coming from the main party of a government that systematically resorts to lies.

But the most ridiculous argument was this: "They have become tools to replace votes with likes." I wonder in which country this is what the socialists are denouncing has been seen. Is there any place where elections are called on Twitter? These arguments were further proof that the socialists use social media to promote the misinformation they criticize so much, contributing to the degrading of an excellent tool for the exchange of ideas and information. Finally, the PSOE has decided that the opinions of the Spanish people are not of interest to it and has closed the comments on its Twitter account.