Qatar behind online hatred campaigns
Qatar has been behind a handful of controversial cases stirred up in Bahrain through the different social platforms during the past few weeks, Interior Ministry confirmed in a statement yesterday.
The ministry affirmed that a number of sensitive matters raised on social media, mainly Twitter and Instagram, jeopardises the Kingdom’s interests and harms its social unity.
This includes the naturalisation of citizens, the Bahraini-Saudi relations, the municipal and parliamentary elections, the new pensions law and other domestic issues of Bahrain.
“The monitoring of recent social media posts has shown a systematic targeting of Bahrain to compromise its national interests by influencing public opinion on various issues, including naturalisation,” the ministry’s statement read.
The ministry stressed in its statement that the posts are aimed at “damaging the close and special Bahrain-Saudi relations and hit the economy by circulating false information through fake accounts run from Qatar and by the wanted fugitives facing justice”.
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