Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro has imposed a 10-day ban on the social media platform ‘X’ (formerly twitter) in response to widespread unrest over a contested election, Aljazeera reported.
On Thursday, Maduro accused ‘X’ owner, Elon Musk of “inciting hate and fascism”, signing a resolution presented by telecommunications regulator Conatel which “has decided to take social network ‘X’ out of circulation for 10 days”.
Following a march by pro-government groups, Maduro, in a speech that was broadcast on state television said, “Elon Musk is the owner of X and has violated all the rules of the social network itself.”
“’X’ get out of Venezuela for 10 days!”, he said.
Election authorities declared Maduro as the winner of the July 28 election with 51.2 percent of votes, but yet to release detailed results.
The electoral body said opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia, who had been leading in opinion polls, got 44.2%.
