translated from Spanish: [VIDEO] After controversial interview Presidente Piñera receives wave of criticism on social networks

President Sebastián Piñera has become one of the Trending Topics on the social network Twitter after a controversial interview conducted by him to the international channel CNN en Español.On the occasion stated that muc videos that account for DD violations. Hh. made by Carabineros “are filmed outside Chile”, and also assumed that the government asked for the controversial Big Data study. Piñera specifically told journalist Andrés Oppenheimer that “The campaign of misinformation, of fake news, of montages to create a sense of disorder and of a total crisis has been huge. There has certainly been participation of foreign governments and institutions in that.” He added: “Our intelligence system, which is going to have to be modernized, because they were not up to the task, has also given us information. We’ve put all of that in the hands of the Da.A. to investigate.” The Representative also noted that “I have the firm impression that there has been intervention here, not only from Chilean hands and minds, but also from other sources,” before which Oppenheimer asked for examples, repeating that “Many people think that you are making that up.” In response to this query Piñera replied that “social media has been used a lot. We have done a study of millions and millions of communications through social networks. Many of them come from outside Chile. The vast majority of them are to provoke more disorder, more demonstrations, more out of control, more civil disobedience, and to harm the Chilean political system. It’s not just the government. There are groups, in our country, as drug traffickers and anarchists, but there is also a foreign hand.” Some of the reactions so far:

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