(9 Aug 2024)
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Caracas, Venezuela – 9 August 2024
1. Various of Snaider Guerra, 20 years old, trying to load twitter feed that is not working
2. Various of Guerra checking her phone
3. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Snaider Guerra, local resident:
"So I have to stop using Twitter (now X)? But that is the first social media where news appear first. The results, on election day, I saw it first on Twitter (now X)"
4. Various of newspapers showing headline reading (Spanish): "Social network X suspended for 10 days in Venezuela"
5. Headline on newspaper reading (Spanish): "Nicolás Maduro takes out of circulation the network X"
6. People looking at phones
7. Anabel Uzcategui, 26, looking at her phone
8. Various of Uzcategui activating VPN to be able to load twitter
9. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Anabel Uzcategui, local resident:
"Fortunately there are many tools like VPNs to access but nonetheless is still an obstacle to access information. So it does not harm only me, that maybe I have the knowledge to access or I have alternatives, but there are people that may not know how to use VPN"
10. Various of Fran Monroy, telecommunications specialist, looking at his phone
11. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Fran Monroy, telecommunications specialist
"Venezuelan news programs, the major television networks, are not seen because they do not reflect the news reality of the country. So what is left? The emergence of YouTube channels that have been very powerful in the dissemination of information, social networks and peer-to-peer or private messaging. So this is nothing more than an escalation that, from a technological point of view, we did not think it was going to happen. It is also an escalation that, from a communications point of view, is extremely serious."
12. Monroy speaking with AP journalist
13. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Fran Monroy, telecommunications specialist
"This government had never disabled the use of an application, this is new. The period of 10 days sounds very strange. Also, the petition Maduro made to Conatel, the national commission of telecommunications, to ask X a series of requirements is such a novel procedure that it does not exist anywhere in Venezuela’s legal system. That is why we suspect of its legality"
14. People looking at phones
15. Banner of president Nicolás Maduro in street
16. Woman looking at phone
STORYLINE:
President Nicolás Maduro said he has ordered a 10-day block on access to X in Venezuela, accusing the owner Elon Musk of using the social network to promote hatred after the country’s disputed presidential election.
On Friday morning many could not access X from their cellphones without using a virtual private network (VPN), often used in Venezuela to bypass network blockades.
“Elon Musk is the owner of X and has violated all the rules of the social network itself,” said Maduro in a speech following a march by pro-government groups.
Maduro alleged Musk “has incited hatred.”
X, previously known as Twitter, is widely used in Venezuela to see news as they happen, because it feels the gap left behind by many traditional networks that are either blocked or censored.
"Is the first social media where news appear first. The results, on election day, I saw it first on Twitter (now X)", said 20 years-old Snaider Guerra.
The president’s announcement comes after Maduro and Musk exchanged accusations over Venezuela’s disputed July 28 presidential election.
Electoral authorities declared Maduro the winner but have yet to produce voting tallies.
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