This book tries to stimulate in the reader a questioning look towards the environment that developed during the COVID-19 pandemic in the digital social networks used by Cubans, in the scenario of media war maintained by the United States government against Cuba.

Its main intention is to contribute to the understanding of the mechanisms of influence and creation of opinion matrices that were exerted on a part of the population of the island, through the screen of millions of mobile phones, during one of the most difficult periods that the country and the world have experienced in this century.

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Javier Gómez Sánchez (Havana, 1983).

Degree in Audiovisual Communication Media from the Higher Institute of Art.

He is an audiovisual producer and journalist.

In 2010 he began his work as a blogger, creating the page sopadecabilla.blogspot.com, to counteract the creation of a negative image of the Cuban reality on the Internet.

Since 2016 he has dedicated himself to the study of the use of the internet and social networks for the media war against the Island, publishing articles in La Pupila Insomne, La Jiribilla, Cubadebate, Cuba Sí, Granma and Dominio Cuba.

His texts have been included in the compilations Centrism in Cuba: A turn of the screw towards capitalism and Without confusion: socialism or capitalism (Editorial Cuba Sí, 2017).

He is the author of the book The Flutes of Hamelin: An Internet Battle for the Minds of Cubans (Editora Abril, 2021).

That same year he made the documentary The dictatorship of the algorithm.

He is currently dean of the Faculty of Audiovisual Media Arts (FAMCA) at the University of the Arts.