Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has been blocked in the country. x.com/NicolasMaduro/status/1821711329536663936″ rel=”nofollow noopener” target=”_blank” data-ylk=”slk:for 10 days;cpos:2;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas” class=”link “> after claiming that the platform's owner had incited hatred and “violated” the rules of his own social network. “Shame on the dictator Maduro,” x.com/elonmusk/status/1817776665906254018″ rel=”nofollow noopener” target=”_blank” data-ylk=”slk:wrote Musk;cpos:4;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas” class=”link “>WHO x.com/elonmusk/status/1817932850664226872′” rel=”nofollow noopener” target=”_blank” data-ylk=”slk:claimed;cpos:5;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas” class=”link “> that the sitting president had committed “significant electoral fraud.”
Maduro, who also argued that his rivals were using the platform to stoke political unrest, said he had given the green light to a proposal by the national telecommunications authority to “eliminate social network x, formerly known as twitter, from circulation in Venezuela for 10 days.” x-elon-musk-59bb734bdd0c8cc4082d6a0cb0f5af25″ rel=”nofollow noopener” target=”_blank” data-ylk=”slk:Associated Press;cpos:6;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas” class=”link “>who said that their reporters in the country were unable to access x after the proclamation. x does not have a public relations department that can be reached for comment.
While Musk has possibly fanned the flames of the situation in Venezuela, Maduro could be using him as a scapegoat to have a pretext to temporarily block x and try to quash discussion about the election results. The president declared himself victorious in the July presidential election, but The result has been questioned.
Independent exit polls and reviews of voting machine data indicated that Maduro’s opponent, Edmundo Gonzalez, may have received twice as many votes as the incumbent president. However, the Maduro-controlled national electoral council said Maduro got 52 percent of the vote, while Gonzalez got 43 percent. The council has not yet produced vote counts, as required by law.
