Attorney General concerned over social media role in FP scandal

SOCIAL MEDIA as a propaganda tool and a way of propagating causes and events can also have its downside as some leading researchers have claimed recently.

Panama’s Attorney General Ana Belfon, made the point on Wednesday July 10 when she appealed to the public to allow prosecutors to investigate the Financial Pacific case.
Belfon said she is concerned about how the case is being discussed on social media sites.
"If we believe in institutions and the constitution we created, there seem to be false expectations in the community," she said.
Belfon did not refer to recent statements by Mayte Pellegrini, the main suspect in the case, who pleaded that the government not be allowed to interfere in the case, and who has expressed concerns for her family after in earlier testimony she had linked President Ricardo Martinelli to the scandal. One person involved in an early audit of the company disappeared suddenly, wearing shorts and leaving his wife and family behind.