Venezuela, Maduro uses his wife’s Facebook account after his own is blocked

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Maduro banned from Facebook. Use his wife’s account for the report of the pandemic

L’account Facebook of the Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro was blocked for 30 days, accused of having “repeatedly violated” the rules of the platform by spreading “Fake news” on pandemic from Covid-19. Following the blockade, the Venezuelan government accused the social media of “digital totalitarianism”. Now Maduro has announced that after the “censorship” and the “block” placed by facebook on his page, to publish his weekly report on the fight against Covid-19 he will use the page of the wife Cilia Flores.

Regarding the decision adopted by the Zuckeberg platform, the Venezuelan ministry of communication defined it as a “violation of freedom of expression”. Alluding to Maduro’s praise of the drug Carvativir, which has not yet received the support of the scientific community, and which has pushed Facebook to block the page, the press release claims that it “strongly draws attention which, in a sort of tyranny of the algorithm, mainly those contents oriented to the contrast of the pandemic and which are of scientific interest, and therefore urgent for the health of humanity “. The Venezuelan head of state assured that such measures will not silence him, and that” the usual budget the weekly fight against Covid-19 will be broadcast on the facebook page ‘ConCiliaFlores’, e also from my Instagram, YouTube and Twitter accounts“.

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