I'm well aware that RT is widely regarded as highly slanted, and regard it so myself, however it's the only news posting of this I can find, information is breaking and largely in Spanish.
It's quite possible that any moderation/censorship by Whatsapp/Facebook and/or the response are elements of the epistemic battle here, and the full picture is not clear as of this writing.
Context : Podemos ( "we can" ) is a relatively new mainstream leftist party. There's also the traditional centre-left PSOE, traditional centre-right PP, 'new' centre-right Ciudadanos ( "citizens" ) and new far-right Vox ( projected to enter Parliament with as much as 10% of votes ), disputing this general election on a national level.
PSOE is projected to win the most votes but not a majority, Podemos would enter in a coalition government with them. Coalitions of right vs. left parties are almost equal in projected votes though, so it's anyone's guess how this will actually end, and of course there's the question of whether the far right will make it into government on a national level. They have in one of the autonomous regions, Andalusia. ( Spain is a federation in all but name. )
A few days from voting, one would expect this kind of move being done on Vox rather than any of the other four mainstream parties, given Vox's extreme right wing xenophobic rhetoric and destabilizing discourse.
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[ 3.2 ms ] story [ 20.0 ms ] threadMy original source is a Spanish-language tweet by Podemos: https://twitter.com/juanmalpr/status/1120459372994420736?s=1...
Via Mastodon:
https://social.weho.st/@anarcat/101988237614581646
It's quite possible that any moderation/censorship by Whatsapp/Facebook and/or the response are elements of the epistemic battle here, and the full picture is not clear as of this writing.
PSOE is projected to win the most votes but not a majority, Podemos would enter in a coalition government with them. Coalitions of right vs. left parties are almost equal in projected votes though, so it's anyone's guess how this will actually end, and of course there's the question of whether the far right will make it into government on a national level. They have in one of the autonomous regions, Andalusia. ( Spain is a federation in all but name. )
A few days from voting, one would expect this kind of move being done on Vox rather than any of the other four mainstream parties, given Vox's extreme right wing xenophobic rhetoric and destabilizing discourse.
Strange to say the least.
https://elpais.com/politica/2019/04/23/actualidad/1556024164...
Basically, WhatsApp seems to be calling their use of the platform 'automated spam' which doesn't really look like an accurate assessment.
Their use of it is the same as from the other political parties involved in the election. Not clear what prompted this.