{"id":59573,"date":"2025-05-13T06:51:43","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T04:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=59573"},"modified":"2026-05-13T00:59:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T22:59:05","slug":"the-psoe-shields-its-twitter-channel-from-criticism-amid-a-wave-of-socialist-scandals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/05\/13\/the-psoe-shields-its-twitter-channel-from-criticism-amid-a-wave-of-socialist-scandals\/","title":{"rendered":"The PSOE shields its Twitter channel from criticism amid a wave of socialist scandals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\"Spain responds.\" This is the headline in bold on the Twitter account of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE).<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/02\/05\/while-allowing-tributes-to-terrorists-sanchez-launches-his-digital-censorship\/\">While allowing tributes to terrorists, S\u00e1nchez launches his digital censorship<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/01\/22\/pedro-sanchez-attacks-the-right-to-privacy-and-compares-using-a-social-network-with-buying-a-gun\/\">Pedro S\u00e1nchez attacks the right to privacy and compares using a social network with buying a gun<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p><big>Spain can no longer respond on the PSOE's Twitter channel<\/big><\/p>\n<p>However, <strong>the party led by Pedro S\u00e1nchez seems not to like Spaniards responding to its messages<\/strong>. Yesterday morning, while El Mundo (one of the most widely read Spanish newspapers) published <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elmundo.es\/espana\/2025\/05\/11\/6820d2efe4d4d8d6628b459e.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a series of WhatsApp messages between S\u00e1nchez and former minister \u00c1balos<\/a>, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eldebate.com\/espana\/20241108\/supremo-imputa-abalos-trama-criminal-referian-pedro-sanchez-como-1_242994.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was charged in November by the Supreme Court with four corruption offenses<\/a>, the Socialists decided to forget their slogan of \"Spain responds\" and <strong>the PSOE Twitter account closed the responses to their messages<\/strong>, allowing replies only to the accounts they mention. Here you can see the video capture I made of their latest messages:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"665\">\n<p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">\u00c9ste es el partido del presidente del gobierno de Espa\u00f1a. Curioso. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DoYJLfeOTH\">pic.twitter.com\/DoYJLfeOTH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Elentir (@elentirvigo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elentirvigo\/status\/1922085263066505510?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 13, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This option of closing replies <strong>is common among some users when they receive an avalanche of criticism or attacks<\/strong> 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. <strong>Seeing the party of the Prime Minister of Spain doing this is very curious and revealing<\/strong>, and it shows how overwhelmed the PSOE feels by criticism.<\/p>\n<p><big>A measure that the PSOE takes amid a wave of socialist scandals<\/big><\/p>\n<p>Obviously, <strong>this measure by the PSOE on Twitter makes it clear that criticism of that party on its channel is over<\/strong>. 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, <strong>but it looks quite bad that this is done by a party that is in the government of Spain<\/strong> and that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/09\/17\/pedro-sanchezs-gag-plan-imitates-francos-and-putins-measures-to-control-the-media\/\">has already presented measures worthy of dictatorships to control the free media<\/a>, as a way to confront the constant corruption scandals of the socialists that are making headlines in Spain.<\/p>\n<p><big>A socialist government that intends to censor social networks<\/big><\/p>\n<p>This measure is revealing about the government's plans. Let's remember that <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PSOE\/status\/1882088437530140885\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in January S\u00e1nchez harshly criticized social media<\/a>. In the message in which he released the video of his intervention, <strong>the PSOE stated: <em>\"Social media is eroding the democratic system throughout the world.\"<\/em><\/strong> The arguments to support this were surreal: <em>\"<strong>They simplify and polarize public debate<\/strong>\"<\/em>, said the socialists, forgetting that they have been promoting this degradation of public debate because it was in their interest. <em>\"<strong>They promote the spread of misinformation<\/strong>\"<\/em>, they added, a statement that is laughable coming from the main party of <strong>a government that systematically resorts to lies<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>But the most ridiculous argument was this: <em>\"<strong>They have become tools to replace votes with likes.<\/strong>\"<\/em> I wonder in which country this is what the socialists are denouncing has been seen. <strong>Is there any place where elections are called on Twitter?<\/strong> These arguments were further proof that <strong>the socialists use social media to promote the misinformation they criticize so much<\/strong>, contributing to the degrading of an excellent tool for the exchange of ideas and information. <strong>Finally, the PSOE has decided that the opinions of the Spanish people are not of interest to it<\/strong> and has closed the comments on its Twitter account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00abSpain responds.\u00bb This is the headline in bold on the Twitter account of the Spanish Socialist Workers&#8217; Party (PSOE).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19536,10395],"tags":[693,10796,11462,1168],"class_list":["post-59573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-social-media","tag-psoe","tag-socialism","tag-spain","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59573"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}