Minister Ñáñez: Venezuela has defended itself for 25 years from psychological warfare attacks

Published at: 21/11/2025 03:58 PM

The Sectorial Vice President of Communication and Culture, Freddy Ñáñez, reaffirmed this Friday that Venezuela has defended itself for 25 years from psychological warfare attacks, warning that social networks have become a space where algorithms condition the consumption of information and can favor the isolation of the population.

Also, during his speech at the New Digital Era, Fake News and Cognitive War forum, held at the Teresa Carreño Theater, he specified that the capitalist system has designed new technologies capable of generating immediate changes in social behaviors, a Venezuelan Television review.

“This cybercapitalism is turning human data into economic and political capital (...) Capitalism has developed mechanisms to know populations in depth, through statistics and precise measurements, in order to dominate them. In the nascent 21st century, technologies are being built that surprise us and that are designed directly for the changes that are taking place now,” he said.

He also indicated that digital capitalism has developed technologies capable of influencing social behaviors through massive data collection. In this context, he mentioned Big Data as an infrastructure designed to monitor, store and predict personal information for economic and political purposes.

He argued that the expansion of these platforms constitutes “a reengineering of humanity” and that all users, consciously or not, contribute data to the digital economic model. “This cybercapitalism converts information into economic and political capital,” he said.

For this reason, he called for strengthening critical awareness in the face of these dynamics and recalled that President Nicolás Maduro has promoted the communication method “Streets, Networks, Media, Walls and Radio Bemba” as a tool to face this type of aggression.

He also emphasized the importance of the Venezuelan population continuing to be in permanent formation to build new theories of communication, while stressing that new tools and digital platforms must be created for liberation.

Mazo News Team