A day after Joseph Muscat assaulted Facebook with a barrage of posts, people in Malta are still picking up the pieces of their shattered newsfeeds.
As the disgraced former Prime Minister faced the public inquiry into the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia yesterday, his Facebook page simultaneously unleashed a torrent of defensive, self-aggrandising and, at times, barely coherent posts.
“I still haven’t recovered from yesterday’s attack. I just found one of Muscat’s posts while scrolling through my newsfeed even though 24 hours have passed, and instantly had flashbacks,” one Facebook user told Bis-Serjetà.
“I made the mistake of engaging with one his fuckwit supporters and now I’m 50 comments deep into a back-and-forth in which he just keeps insulting my mother in bad Maltese. I don’t know how to get out,” said another.
Experts say it could take a long time for Muscat’s posts to finally fade away.
“You could be scrolling through Facebook three year from now, and his ‘hand on heart’ post may appear out of nowhere,” social media disaster relief consultant Mark Anderson said.
