Jorge Rodríguez: Venezuela needs to regulate the functioning of social networks

Published at: 12/08/2024 02:39 PM

The president of the National Assembly (AN), Jorge Rodríguez, highlighted this Monday the need to regulate the functioning of different social networks in Venezuela, in the face of the hate and disinformation campaign that the extreme right and its international allies spread through digital platforms.

During his participation in the meeting of the National Defense Council and Council of State, Deputy Rodríguez pointed out that “Venezuela needs to regulate the functioning of social networks”, stressing that “ we are not the pioneers in this issue, more than 70 countries, almost 40% of the countries approved by the United Nations have regulated the operation of social networks.”

He said that “the European Union began to argue in 2019 and there are already laws and regulations that somehow regulate the functioning of these bodies”, while “France started in 2018 and Great Britain made a draft regulation for social networks in 2020, which required impartiality in political matters (...) Ireland fined Twitter - now X - in 2020 because it was involved in a political campaign”, he explained.

The head of Parliament recalled that, then, “the fascist Elon Musk did not own Twitter and it is now that the use of that social network to attack countries and to attack governments has been most exacerbated”.

“It is essential that we not only defend the State, its institutions, it is essential that we defend the people, that we defend Venezuelan women, and that, above all, we take care of our girls and our boys who are now being subjected to a hate infection on the part of social networks,” he emphasized.

Mazo News Team