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Public Security Minister, Khemraj Ramjattan

Fearing that the opposition People’s Progressive Party (PPP) has hired an American firm to post customised messages to Guyanese Facebook users’ accounts, Public Security Minister Khemraj Ramjattan has announced that the governing APNU+AFC coalition would ask that social media giant to block such messages that are calculated to rig Guyana’s next general election.

“That is why we are in the process; we’ll have to write the Facebook people, Mark Zuckerberg and so on not to put those ads on because that is terrible. It is going to influence our elections. It is going to, in a sense, rig our elections and although we have done all these things, sometimes people’s minds are going to break because of these advertisements,” he said Saturday night on Dave Television in New Amsterdam, Berbice.

Ramjattan accused the PPP of hiring the Washington-based public relations lobbying firm, Mercury Public Affairs, to target at least 45,000 Guyanese, who might have highlighted problems that they are experiencing or are disgruntled with the incumbent administration, with messages that might convince them to vote for the Opposition.

“So I want you all to understand, a lot of things will come on you all Facebook, especially those who are persuadable, lots of real big pieces of disinformation and misinformation and fake news to the extent to toss up your head…and they may do it in such a professional way…and then when elections come you don’t want nothing to do with the government that’s trying its best for you,” said Ramjattan who is also the AFC’s Chairman.

He said so far PPP General Secretary, Bharrat Jagdeo, who is also Opposition Leader, has not challenged the AFC’s account of what it believes Mercury Public Affairs would be used for.

Jagdeo has already said the GYD$34 million contract would see the company lobbying American decision-makers for free and fair elections to be held in Guyana and to counter several allegations that are being levelled against the PPP by the David Granger-led administration.

Despite reports that the British consulting firm, Cambridge Analytica, had said it had provided services to Guyana, the PPP and the governing coalition had denied hiring the firm for the 2011 and 2015 general elections.

Details of Cambridge Analytica’s work have not been made public, but that company had risen to global prominence last year when reports had surfaced that US President Donald Trump’s campaign had hired it to build targeted advertisements during the 2016 US elections using harvested data from 50 million Facebook users without their consent.

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AFC PNC are becoming more desperate as time goes by. They themselves used facebook and social media to a great extent during the last election.

AFC PNC even used the banned Analytica during the last election !

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yuji22 posted:

AFC PNC are becoming more desperate as time goes by. They themselves used facebook and social media to a great extent during the last election.

AFC PNC even used the banned Analytica during the last election !

They had hired a US company to lobby on their behalf in 2015 GE.. these hypocrites. 

FM

RE "It is going to, in a sense, rig our elections and although we have done all these things, sometimes people’s minds are going to break because of these advertisements,” he said Saturday night on Dave Television in New Amsterdam, Berbice."

 

Rasssss, Dave got 'e own tv station.

In his position,Ramjattan should really speak better, dam man tends to use words such as:

you don’t want nothing to do with the government that’s trying its best for you....

“That is why we are in the process; we’ll have to write the Facebook people, Mark Zuckerberg and so on.... who derass is "and so on?" 

cain
cain posted:

RE "It is going to, in a sense, rig our elections and although we have done all these things, sometimes people’s minds are going to break because of these advertisements,” he said Saturday night on Dave Television in New Amsterdam, Berbice."

 

Rasssss, Dave got 'e own tv station.

In his position,Ramjattan should really speak better, dam man tends to use words such as:

you don’t want nothing to do with the government that’s trying its best for you....

“That is why we are in the process; we’ll have to write the Facebook people, Mark Zuckerberg and so on.... who derass is "and so on?" 

Says that Ramjattan has no idea what he needs to do or who he needs to communicate with. 

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ksazma posted:
cain posted:

RE "It is going to, in a sense, rig our elections and although we have done all these things, sometimes people’s minds are going to break because of these advertisements,” he said Saturday night on Dave Television in New Amsterdam, Berbice."

 

Rasssss, Dave got 'e own tv station.

In his position,Ramjattan should really speak better, dam man tends to use words such as:

you don’t want nothing to do with the government that’s trying its best for you....

“That is why we are in the process; we’ll have to write the Facebook people, Mark Zuckerberg and so on.... who derass is "and so on?" 

Says that Ramjattan has no idea what he needs to do or who he needs to communicate with. 

Must be a bad joke that went wrong!

Baseman

The coalition still practicing third world shithole country politics. What stopped the coalition from going out and hiring a firm to do the same for them during the elections? What is Ramjattan bitching about?

Granger and company need to wake up! Slothful, lazy thinking, no foresight, vision or game plan. These idiots will  ensure a return of Rat man and the cabal to power to teef Guyana dry and enslave black people!

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Iguana posted:

The coalition still practicing third world shithole country politics. What stopped the coalition from going out and hiring a firm to do the same for them during the elections? What is Ramjattan bitching about?

Granger and company need to wake up! Slothful, lazy thinking, no foresight, vision or game plan. 

Not sure what they trying to accomplish.  If they trying to piggyback off the sentiments here, the thinking is flawed.  The issue in the US is a foreign actor using the platform to influence domestic politics. 

What they are complaining is the PPP using FB to conduct local politics. That’s the way of the world today.  

PNC needs to get their act together!

Baseman

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