Venezuelan regime ‘awaits Musk to send his documents’ to free X

According to Venezuela’s Communications Minister Freddy Ñáñez, the government is “waiting” for representatives of the social network X, owned by South African tycoon Elon Musk, to present documents about their operations in the country, in order to release the platform blocked by order of President Nicolás Maduro.

Ñáñez explained that the “precautions” What Maduro asked Musk to do include the formal presentation of the company’s board of directors, which designates or reports, in case it already exists, who is the representative of X in Venezuela, and that that person becomes “responsible” well “accepts Venezuelan laws and lives within the laws and makes legal use of its platform”he said in an interview with the digital media La Iguana, reported EFE.

“We are still waiting for them to take over”said the minister, 12 days after the announcement of a temporary suspension of this social network andqwhich was initially for 10 days.

According to the minister, the social impact of the measure is clear, “people can live without X”However, many users use virtual private networks (VPNs) to bypass this ban.

According to him, on this network, formerly known as Twitter, they act “a kind of digital ghosts”referring to bots, which leaves a “very small real community”especially when compared to Facebook, which has 22 million registered profiles in Venezuela, where there are also 8 and 7.9 million TikTok and Instagram accounts, respectively.

Nevertheless, Bot accounts are one of the main tools that the regime uses to create false trends on the networkstigmatize opponents or intervene in the dialogue of sectors opposed to the regime, according to research by organizations such as Transparency Venezuela.

“What is going to happen (in view of the maintenance of the veto on X) “It’s that new social networks are going to start coming in”predicted Ñáñez, who highlighted the power and reach of platforms created in China.