Venezuela president Nicolás Maduro has blocked X in the country for ten days over concerns that Elon Musk is citing hated on the platform, violating his own rules.The issue stems from a post Musk made where he wrote “Shame on Dictator Madura” where Musk suggested that Maduro had committed “major election fraud.”
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Maduro has also claimed that his rivals are using the platform to stoke political unrest, the AP reports. Maduro was declared the election winner earlier this week; however, electoral authorities haven’t produced voting tallies to support his win, which has been done in previous elections. The opposition has share tally sheets from nearly 80% of the 30,000 electronic voting machines suggesting Maduro lost by more than a 2-to-1 margin.
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Earlier this week, Maduro attacked Meta’s WhatsApp messaging app. He publicly deleted it from his phone during his weekly television show and urged supporters to switch to competitor Telegram.
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