Earlier this month, Meta's Oversight Board ordered the platform to restore a video uploaded by a citizen-run Cuban news platform on the one-year anniversary of the July 11 protests, during which thousands of dissenting Cubans were brutally repressed.
A journalist takes a cell phone photo of Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez giving a press conference in Havana, Cuba, Thursday, Oct. 19, 2023. Earlier this month, Meta’s Oversight Board ordered the platform to restore a video uploaded by a citizen-run Cuban news platform on the one-year anniversary of the July 11 protests, during which thousands of dissenting Cubans were brutally repressed.
Exercising free speech comes at an immense cost in Cuba, where any form of opposition to the regime is ruthlessly stifled. During the July 11 protests alone, the regime arbitrarily arrested over 1,400 people, indicted 790, and, by March 2022, had sentenced at least 128 to prison sentences of up to 30 years.
Social media platforms are often the only place where people living under authoritarian rule can criticize or question a regime’s repression. Other outlets for political expression are severely limited or simply non-existent. The Cuban regime, for example, owns and controls all media outlets and has prohibited privately owned outlets in its Constitution, making independent media illegal in the country.
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