UNITED
NATIONS, July
1,
updated twice
-- The UN
Information
Center in
Washington DC
sent
out a tweet
on Monday
morning,
“Interested in
learning more
about
#UN events
taking place
in
#WashingtonDC?
The #UNIC
calendar is
your
one-stop shop:
http://bit.ly/1aV3IR.”
There
was only one
problem: the
link was not
to any UN
calendar, but
rather
to a web site
called
penis-health-blog.com.
We have saved
the @UNICDC
twitter page,
here in
case as is
likely they
change it. For
now it's at https://twitter.com/unicdc/status/351672513547337728
Update:
immediately
after
publication of
this article
UNICDC deleted
its tweet,
without
sending any
explanation to
FUNCA.
UNsocial
media. Update
2: after the
above, UNIC DC
tweeted this.
We've
deleted a
suspicious
tweet form
this morning.
Don't click on
any links from
past 4 hours.
The
Free
UN Coalition
for Access,
which since
its founding
in late 2012
has engaged
with and
tested UN
social media
--
increasingly
so after
the Department
of Public
Information
which runs the
UNICs tried
to
order the
censorship of
even a single
FUNCA sign on
the office
door
of Inner City
Press --
immediately replied
to @UNICDC:
“Please
explain this
link, even if
you take it
down: MT
“@unicdc
calendar
is your
one-stop shop:
http://bit.ly/1aV3IR”
But
even an hour
later, there
had been no
reply. This is
how the
UNIC's,
and other UN
social media
accounts,
work: they
pump out
information
one-way, but
don't respond
to questions.
This is
UNsocial
media.
The "staff" page
of UNIC-DC
lists as
director the
ironically
named Rodney
Bent, and also
one Liam
Murphy
(pictured here with Ban
Ki-moon.)
The
UN's “Greening
the Blue”
twitter
account did
not respond on
the
carbon impact
of Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon's
travel,
when asked
by the Free UN
Coalition for
Access, @FUNCA_info.
UNDP's
Olav
Kjorven didn't
answer on his
carbon
footprint, nor
on whether
the UN system
favors an
Oceans SDG.
UNDP
is pitching
the #Post2015
tumult in “194
countries,”
because a
video they
paid for said
it involved
Rwanda and 193
countries. But
when asked
by FUNCA what
the 194th
country is
-- Somaliland?
-- they did
not respond,
but just dropped
the 194
country claim
for 750,000
people.
(Then it returned,
again
unexplained.)
It's
a one way
mirror,
throughout the
UN system.
Watch this
site.
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