From Salvini to Di Battista, when embarrassment deletes a post. And there are those who take it out on hackers – Corriere.it

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Volant tweets, manent screenshots. The comment of one of the users of the social network after the clamor for Matteo Salvini’s post a few hours after the flood in Emilia Romagna says a lot about how practically impossible it is now to emerge unscathed from a misstep made on the Net. Let alone if the person concerned is a politician. Heart and commitment (and phone that rings constantly) dedicated to the citizens of Emilia and Romagna who struggle with water and mud. A Milan without heart, grit and ideas it doesn’t even deserve a thought, the deputy premier had chirped. An association in the same post (that of the drama of the flood and the defeat of Milan in the Champions League) which has sparked controversy and criticism from the network and from many political opponents. Salvini a bit minister, a bit ultras, he commented Mara Carfagna of Action. Once again Umberto Eco and his reflection on social media and imbeciles come in handy, he said Nicola Fratoianni of the Italian left.

And what did the Northern League secretary do? Meanwhile, he has removed the tweet. Because if it is true that screenshots are missing, and therefore that no one will ever be able to make the offending sentence disappear completely, it is equally true that no one else will be able to read it anymore on his official profile. And, why not, in the future take it out. As if to say, SOS!, we reduce the noise immediately even if the echo continues to resonate. A choice, that of forced release of a post, which we find very often in digital politics. Among the best known cases is certainly the array of tweets published and then deleted by Donald Trumpan ups and downs that led to the suspension of the former US president’s social media page.

Going back to Italian politics, and passing over who, here and there, is picking on the hackers (how can we forget the dramatic post against Cricket which made him burst into tears Paula Tavern or the story on the premier’s official Instagram page With you which invited you to join the group Send Renzi home!), there is the case of another tweet discussed (and then removed) which in 2019 even causes discussion Defence (minister M5S Trenta) e Keep them in mind (League minister Salvini). The Defense chirping congratulated for the intervention of the Navy to protect nine Italian fishing boats threatened by the Libyans. The totally false news and the post is deleted. Too late, however, not to trigger the Carroccio controversy. The Viminale defines the Trenta uninformed and attacks: Be a minister, the military deserve more. Examples abound.

there Alessandro Di Battista, who in the days of the controversy over Rai’s appointments in November 2021 attacks his former 5 Star colleagues in government: You said we had to stay inside to check now that we’re not even inside anymore, what are we left to do?. The post was published on Facebook and shortly after removed by the former grillino himself. And then there is the case of Hector Rosato. Her post for the death of Donna Assunta Almirante unleashes the social storm: with her disappears an important witness to the moral and political legacy of her husband Giorgio Almirante and her MSI. A shower of criticism invests the then president of Italia viva, who, while explaining his thoughts, nevertheless decides to remove the tweet. In short, delete. To reduce noise.

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