ZIMBABWEANS should not allow social media to shape their opinion of the country since agents of regime change such as MDC-Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa and his allies were using it to post subversive statements aimed at unseating the elected Government, Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Minister Monica Mutsvangwa has said.

Addressing the ZANU-PF Women’s League executive at the party’s headquarters in Harare yesterday, Minister Mutsvangwa said social media should not be used to influence opinion.

“There is need to monitor the use of the social media at all levels, since it is being abused by the country’s detractors to influence opinion,” she said.

She narrated how some mischievous individuals have gone to the extent of creating fake Twitter accounts of eminent persons such as the president of the chief’s council Chief Fortune Charumbira and Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veteran’s leader and her husband Cde Christopher Mutsvangwa and posting tweets denouncing the President, party and Government.

“This infiltration is to cause division among top Government officials,” she said.

Turning to the economy, Minister Mutsvangwa said Government understands and empathises with the hardships people are experiencing.State media