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And a lot of it was negative commentary about the Cuban government and more kind of pro-America

Which just makes me think like if someone is dependent on social media platforms to get news, it just is so influenced by whoever is controlling.

I'm not sure it's not one person, but like whatever kind of system is controlling.

It's curated to make us see things in a certain way that isn't always to our benefit and it's certainly not impartial.

And I think a lot of it does come down to manufacturing consent for certain things.

Like, if you look at Cuba, it's an island.

It's isolated.

There's a blockade.

Tourism is nearly completely gone compared to what it was even a couple of years ago.

And Donald Trump is eyeing it up.

to invade it or take over it whether it's through military means or through economic means but he's intent on taking control of Cuba and he's been really open about that and I guess how I see what was happening on the social media feed and what kind of seems to be playing out for me is that

when the time comes for the United States to do something with Cuba, that enough people will be able to get behind it and say, yeah, we agree with this because this is how we see Cuba, heavily influenced by what they've seen on their social media feeds for months beforehand.

The same thing has happened with Iran now.

Same thing happened with Venezuela.

The country that's being invaded or being attacked is so far away from

in our perception and we're dependent on what we see on our social media feed.

And that's what builds the picture of the other country, which is a lot of the time completely inaccurate.

It's not a complete picture and it's a picture that suits the United States.

So it's like people can be like, okay, well, this is clearly a dictatorship or it's clearly a narco state.

Or it's clearly oppressing the people.