Venezuela rejects new arbitrariness of Facebook by blocking official account of President Nicolás Maduro - MPPRE

Venezuela rejects new arbitrariness of Facebook by blocking official account of President Nicolás Maduro

The People’s Power Ministry for Communication and Information categorically rejects a new arbitrariness on the part of the company in charge of the social network Facebook, which incurs in violation of articles 57 and 58 of the Constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, by blocking, unjustifiably, for a period of thirty days, the official account of Constitutional President Nicolás Maduro Moros, thereby violating the right of 1.2 million users of said account, to accurate and timely information.

It is worth noticing that, in a kind of tyranny of the algorithm, content aimed at fighting the pandemic and which is of scientific interest and, therefore, urgent for the health of humanity, is mainly pursued.

The facts:

There are countless unilateral measures that Facebook has taken against the Venezuelan dignitary’s freedom of speech; however, lets refer to two events that have become temporary censorship.

  1. In October 2020, President Nicolás Maduro presented a report approved by the Venezuelan health authorities, on the DR10 molecule, a nationally engineered drug, whose curative properties against COVID-19 have been endorsed by the country’s scientific community and presented in a disinterested way, for its certification, before PAHO. The Facebook company marked the content as false and arbitrarily removed it.
  2. On Saturday, March 27, the administrators of the official Facebook page of President Nicolás Maduro Moros were notified of the elimination of the live broadcast from the balance sheet and fight against COVID-19, on Sunday, March 21. This time for publicly presenting the retroviral, also of national engineering and production, Carvativir, and its mass and free distribution plan throughout the country.

This constitutes not only acts of censorship, typical of a new media dictatorship, but also evidences an extension of the blockade and boycott that the North American empire illegally applies against our people to consummate the so-called “regime change” by force.

It is evident, and Venezuela denounce it, that there is digital totalitarianism, exercised by supranational companies that want to impose their law on the countries of the world.

In this sense, as a believing and practicing Republic of the highest democratic values and dedvote to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Venezuela deplores the unilateral actions of the Facebook company, to the detriment of the freedom of speech of the President and his account’s users.

Likewise, informing those interested that Venezuela has institutions and laws that cannot be violated by these new forms of political persecution, cultural subjection and media oppression.