Ecuador president's social media counter attack
Far from laughing along with those who poke fun at him on social media, President Rafael Correa has created a website and Twitter account to marshal digital counterattacks by his supporters against the "defamers."
"For every lying tweet that they send out, we will send 10,000 that are truthful," Correa said Saturday in his weekly TV appearance.
To critics, the campaign is simply the latest salvo in the war on freedom of expression by a president they see as thin-skinned and whom human rights groups criticize as intolerant.
Since 2012, Correa has secured a $42 million criminal libel award against the country's main opposition newspaper, forced top political cartoonist Javier Bonilla to "correct" his work and secured passage of a new media law that made a government panel the arbiter of journalistic fairness.
http://news.yahoo.com/ecuador-presidents-social-media-counter-attack-050851980.html
What a prickly windbag.
