Venezuela calls Facebook suspension of Maduro ‘digital totalitarianism’
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela’s authorities on Sunday accused Facebook Inc of “digital totalitarianism” after it froze President Nicolas Maduro’s net web page for 30 days for violating its insurance coverage insurance policies in opposition to spreading misinformation about COVID-19.
Facebook instructed Reuters this weekend it had moreover taken down a video whereby Maduro promoted Carvativir, a Venezuelan-made remedy he claims, with out proof, can treatment the sickness. Facebook said it adopted guidance from the World Health Organization (WHO) that there is for the time being no treatment that will treatment the virus.
In a press launch on Sunday, Venezuela’s knowledge ministry said Facebook was going after “content material materials geared in direction of combating the pandemic” and described Carvativir as a retroviral of “nationwide manufacturing and engineering.”
“We are witnessing a digital totalitarianism exercised by supranational firms who have to impose their regulation on the nations of the world,” the ministry said.
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