On the night of Sunday, August 13, 2023, Lali Espósito opened X and shared his discomfort with the results of the Paso, which consecrated a victory by Javier Milei. “How dangerous. How sad,” he tweeted, unleashing a wave of reactions on the platform. Those who shared the feeling backed it without hesitation, while the libertarian’s supporters soon attack it.
The aggressions towards Lali did not end there. As president, Milei made her recurrent target of her public appearances and publications in networks, where she nicknamed her “Lali Deposit” and accused her of “parasite.” These clashes between the singer and the president became a constant, with Lali always firm in his convictions and without fear of criticism.
However, that tweet, which seemed to have been forgotten, became a topic of conversation last weekend, when artist followers noticed something strange: the likes in that message mysteriously disappeared. “I get up, breakfast, I like Lali’s tweet. I work, Twitter check at two hours and I have to like it again. And so, ”a user complained. According to their fans, even when they made sure to like it again, it continued to disappear, which fed speculations about possible manipulation on the platform.
Days before, after the homophobic comments of the Argentine president in Davos, Lali had updated his profile photo on social networks, including X, with the LGBTIQ+ flag in a gesture of support to the community. While some suggested that the disappearance of the likes was linked to censorship for the criticism of the artist to Milei, others believe it was a technical failure of the platform.
It is true that this episode revived doubts about the transparency and functioning of X and put in the center of the debate the controversial management of the social network by Elon Musk since its acquisition of Twitter in 2022. Criticisms about censorship, misinformation and content Toxic that circulates on the platform are not new. Important international media such as The Guardian or La Vanguardia have already announced their withdrawal. In the world of celebrities, the writer Stephen King and actress Jamie Lee Curtis also decided to leave the network.
The mystery of Lali’s lost likes has generated even more questions about what is happening in X. The disappearance of likes in one of the most relevant tweets of the artist has generated that many wonder if there is anything else behind this network Planetary His followers do not lose detail of this phenomenon: censorship or technical failure? Will Lali be the next pop star to join the exodus of celebrities who leave X?
By María Florencia Delpino
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