{"id":24053,"date":"2019-11-12T16:55:58","date_gmt":"2019-11-12T20:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/?p=24053"},"modified":"2019-12-02T13:58:43","modified_gmt":"2019-12-02T17:58:43","slug":"here-are-all-the-examples-of-bolivia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/2019\/11\/12\/here-are-all-the-examples-of-bolivia\/","title":{"rendered":"Here are all the examples of Bolivian Coup Being Censored on Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I am not an expert on Bolivian politics. I am, however, human, which is more than can be said about the Twitter accounts commenting on the Bolivian coup:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"embed-twitter\"><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">going absolutely insane <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fqxwmybcPX\">pic.twitter.com\/fqxwmybcPX<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Sam (@halaljew) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/halaljew\/status\/1194132932509806593?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 12, 2019<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Other not-even-trying-to-be-subtle examples of establishing the &#8220;Morales is a fraud&#8221; frame include anime accounts that suddenly became very <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ceciluteran\">concerned about Bolivian politics<\/a> and this Google Ngram graph:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/fellawhomstdve\/status\/1194059439294369793\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Dozens of low-follower twitter accounts all started tweeting the same thing over the past two days and yet if you look for any of these accounts now you will find that they have been deleted:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"310\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/files\/2019\/11\/IMG_3960-310x500.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24055\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/files\/2019\/11\/IMG_3960-310x500.png 310w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/files\/2019\/11\/IMG_3960-155x250.png 155w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/files\/2019\/11\/IMG_3960-248x400.png 248w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/files\/2019\/11\/IMG_3960.png 592w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 310px) 100vw, 310px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>In fact nothing shows up if you search &#8220;Friends from everywhere, in Bolivia there was NO COUP&#8221; either. Now its just people sharing the same photos and videos of how obviously fake these tweets are. Alan R MacLeod, a reporter for FAIR who reports on disinformation noticed noticed that a Spanish-language hashtag about Bolivia was trending in strange palces:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/AlanRMacLeod\/status\/1194153593500315648\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Another tweet making the rounds is this one, showing a ridiculously biased title for the Wikipedia entry for the coup:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/LivPosting\/status\/1194058864964120576\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>That title has, as of this writing, since been changed to &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Evo_Morales_government_resignation\">Evo Morales government resignation<\/a>.&#8221; However, things get more interesting when you dive into the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Talk:Evo_Morales_government_resignation#Was_this_really_a_Coup?\">talk page<\/a>. User &#8220;Ascarboro97&#8221; who has no history of editing Wikipedia at all  writes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I am the person who moved to &#8220;2019 Bolivian transition to democracy&#8221;  That being said, I understand it&#8217;s far-fetched, and I apologize for its  lack of neutrality. I simply did not want it to be called a &#8220;coup&#8221;.  Personally, my family is from Bolivia, and I have been closely following  the situation there over the past few weeks. As some of you may know,  the current set of protests in Bolivia began because Evo Morales  manipulated the results of the 2019 election to make it look like he won  by a wide margin. This greatly angered many people, who saw it as  anti-democratic, leading to the protests. The military and police did  not overthow the government. They simply sided with the protesters,  leading to the resignation of Evo Morales. Needless to say, this is a  victory for the protestors, who have grown tired of Evo&#8217;s authoritarian  tendencies, so calling the situation a coup is insulting to them,  especially since that is the term Evo has tried to use to discredit  them. However, I also agree that moving the article to the &#8220;transition  to democracy&#8221; is also problematic, as we haven&#8217;t had time to see how the  situation plays out. I therefore think &#8220;Evo Morales resignation&#8221; is a  good compromise. Once again, I apologize for my lack of neutrality. I  admit that I know very little about editing Wikipedia.  &#8212;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=User:Ascarboro97&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1\">Ascarboro97<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/User_talk:Ascarboro97\">talk<\/a>) 04:06, 11 November 2019 (UTC) <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>For whatever its worth, the line &#8220;My family is from Bolivia&#8221; followed by descriptions of Morales as an authoritarian come up a lot when, for example, that family owned some mining interests:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/lukeisamazing\/status\/1194100981644111873\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Maybe I&#8217;m being a bit glib, but these last two examples feel eerily similar to Joanna Haussmann, the comedian who took to YouTube to denounce Nicol\u00e1s Maduro when the Trump Administration was trying to install Juan Guaid\u00f3. Haussmann, came off as a concerned citizen- just a normal person caring for her country. She rarely mentions that she is the daughter of  Ricardo Haussmann who has held multiple positions including former IMF-World Bank Chair of Development Committee and a member of the Board of the Central Bank of Venezuela before Hugo Chavez took power in 1999.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Guaid\u00f3 apologia was so rampant last spring that Means TV even ran a video parodying the Brooklyn-agecent Venezuelan expats: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2tBzNa3Pack?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Propaganda isn&#8217;t new. Even this internet-based version of it is at least seven years old. Back in 2012 I wrote about the <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/2012\/12\/04\/state-sponsored-slacktivism-the-social-media-campaigns-of-the-idf-and-hamas\/\">IDF&#8217;s use of social media to frame how global audiences viewed Palestinians<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>IDF\u2019s tweets and blog posts are a running tally of rockets and resources. Hamas rocket attacks are crucial for justifying military action and painting the enemy as an unfeeling terrorist. Too many rockets and the IDF seems ineffectual. Too few rockets, and people start questioning your occupation. The result is somewhat contradictory and paradoxical: the IDF\u2019s anti-missile defense strategy (aka Iron Dome) is described as extremely effective but is never depicted as impervious<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>This is of course par for the course today in Bolivia. While <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BenjaminNorton\/status\/1194080182077939713\">videos of cops cutting out the indigenous flag from their uniforms are easy to find<\/a>, they are also careful to show that pro-Morales crowds are both cowardly, small in number, but also dangerous. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ll add to this as more comes out.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am not an expert on Bolivian politics. 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