Cuba Blames Twitter User And “Necrophiliac Counter-Revolutionaries” For Castro Death Rumours
Cuba has accused Twitter of both starting and helping to spread a rumour that began on Monday that former leader Fidel Castro had died, suggesting that the social network helped spread disinformation about Castro’s passing by allowing the #fidelcastro hashtag to become a trending topic.
The state-run Cubadebate website singled out one user for particularly harsh criticism, before suggesting that “necrophiliac counter-revolutionaries” worsened the situation by jumping on the story, and that Twitter has also previously censored topics that were in favour of the Cuban government.
Rumours about the deaths of celebrities and other major figures on Twitter are par for the course, and on Monday Twitter was buzzing with the ‘news’ of Castro’s death – the #fidelcastro hashtag quickly become the fourth most-popular trending topic on the network, which naturally added additional fuel to the story.
Castro’s age (he’s 85) and his top
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