Nicolás Maduro bans X in Venezuela for 10 days amid Elon Musk dispute

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Nicolás Maduro bans X in Venezuela for 10 days amid Elon Musk dispute

Venezuela’s president Nicolás Maduro has blocked in the country

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, who that the incumbent president had committed “major election ******.”

Maduro, who also argued that his rivals were using the platform to stoke political unrest, said he greenlit a proposal by the national telecoms authority to “remove the social network X, formerly known as

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, from circulation in Venezuela for 10 days.” That’s according to the

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, which said its reporters in the country were unable to access X after the proclamation. X does not have a public relations department that can be reached for comment.

While Musk has arguably fanned the flames of the situation in Venezuela, Maduro could be using him as a scapegoat so he has a pretext to temporarily block X and attempt to quash discussion of election results. The president claimed victory in July’s presidential election, but the

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Independent exit polls and reviews of voting machine data indicated that Maduro’s opposition, Edmundo González, may have received twice as many votes as the incumbent. The Maduro-controlled national electoral council however claimed that Maduro had a 52 percent share of the vote with González taking 43 percent. The council has not yet produced voting tallies as is required by law.

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