Another PP blunder on social media: replacing the Canary Islands with Hawaii on a map of Spain

BarcelonaThe use of artificial intelligence seems to have played a new trick on the PP, which accumulates controversies over its current social media strategyIn a tweet this Thursday marking May Day, Alberto Núñez Feijóo's party replaced the Canary Islands with the Hawaiian archipelago on a map of Spain. The conservatives' post targeted the Spanish government for questions about the taxes owed by the working class, but it backfired. "Everyone's taxes pay for public education, which at least serves to understand the geography of our country," the PSOE responded to the PP, also on X.

The image released by the PP was a drawing of two male and female workers holding a map of the Spanish state over their heads, and the accompanying text read: "If the [Spanish] government wants to celebrate Labor Day, let it start by lowering taxes and giving them back their money." Beyond the grammatical incongruity of the sentence, the map placed the Pacific islands where the Canary Islands should be. The conservatives ended up deleting the tweet, but the screenshots circulated quickly and the socialists took advantage of it to soak bread.

"Friends of the PP, stop using AI for everything, because in the end it ends up putting Hawaii where the Canary Islands should be," read the PSOE's response message. Thursday's is not the first controversy involving the PP for using AI to attack Pedro Sánchez's government, in a strategy to try to gain impact on social media and reach younger users. One of the most famous was the video inspired by the popular Telecinco programThe Island of Temptations, renamed asThe island of corruption and which, despite pointing to the Spanish coalition government, ended up generating a diplomatic conflict with the Dominican Republic.