In the final stages of his campaign, Chavez blocked the pages of the Venezuelan Fake News Observatory

There are still two weeks until National Day. President election exist Venezuelathe country’s main internet operator They blocked the Venezuelan Fake News Observatory’s website （fakenewsvenezuela.org), a news item that dismantled False Information In South American countries.

“Through different users of operators such as Digitel, Movistar, Cantv, etc. “They told us that unless they activated the VPN, they could not freely access our website from within Venezuela.”, Rebuke Their collective on social networks.

The complaint stressed: “Blocking websites that fight false information is a reprehensible practice, especially in the context of the campaign registered in the country a few days before the #28J elections.”

The Observatory later said that review Carried out by the NGO Ve sinfilter, it was detected that “the page has a DNS type block in Digitel and NetUno, HTTP/HTTPS type in Movistar and DNS+HTTPS type in Cantv.”

“The first measured blockage was at 6:00 a.m. on July 12, 2024, so it occurred between Thursday the 11th and Friday the 12th,” the complaint states.

According to the Observatory, Your page is the third one dedicated to Fact-checkingor fact-checking, including detecting errors and fake news in the media, Since the campaign began, the plan has ultimately been thwarted in Venezuela.

The Observatory itself reported that on July 4, the website of the Venezuelan anti-disinformation organization was blocked. Fake News Hunter and verification website This is straw.

The Venezuelan Observatory of Fake News, an initiative of the Medianalisis civil association dedicated to stimulating the social role of the media, and journalism in Venezuela in particular, has just published a review of the use of the phrase “I am the authority” by the ruling party of Venezuela to try to influence voters and their perception of opposition leader María Corina Machado.

also, The project disrupted the ruling party’s disinformation campaign about opposition candidatesFacing the final stretch of the election, the Chávez regime’s propaganda apparatus is trying to undermine his reputation.