Hasta 2015 todos los documentos de los ministerios estaban disponibles y, como eran documentos técnicos, se mostraban millones de bolívares no usados, mal usados, desperdiciados, de proyectos que no se terminaron o que se retrasaron. Al año siguiente ya no se publicaban: las bases de datos que estaban en Excel las empezaron a poner en PDF, las de PDF las pusieron en buscadores… Durante 2016 todavía había bases de datos, pero eran secundarias o de instituciones no tan ligadas al poder central. Todavía podíamos corroborar información o comparar a Hugo Chávez con los presidentes anteriores, pero el Gobierno pasó a quitar bases de datos, a eliminar estadísticas, o a dejarlas con siete u ocho años de retraso. Por José Manuel Cuevas. Texto Completo -> VOA

Courtesy translation -> Until 2015 all the documents of the ministries were available and, as they were technical documents, they showed millions of bolivars not used, misused, wasted, of projects that were not finished or that were delayed. The following year they were no longer published: the databases that were in Excel began to be put in PDF, the PDF ones were put in search engines … During 2016 there were still databases, but they were secondary or from institutions not so closely linked to the central power. We could still corroborate information or compare Hugo Chávez with previous presidents, but the government began to remove databases, eliminate statistics, or leave them seven or eight years behind.

Since the protests began on July 11, online users have shared posts claiming to be from the unrest, but many of them are not from the current demonstrations. Even the official Facebook account of the Presidency of the Republic of Cuba denounced one fake Facebook profile that was created, claiming to be the official government office of the president. VERIFY investigated several of these photos and videos and dug into their origin stories. Full Text -> WUSA9

A Facebook spokesperson has confirmed the blocking of the account of the dictator Nicolás Maduro. “We have deleted a video posted on the pages of President Nicolás Maduro for violating our policies on disinformation related to Covid-19, which could put people at risk,” says this spokesman for the social network. Full Text -> MarketResearchTelecast

A pro-China network of fake and imposter accounts found a global audience on YouTube, Facebook and Twitter to mock the U.S.
response to the COVID-19 pandemic as well as the deadly riot in Washington that left ve dead, new research published
Thursday found. Messages posted by the network, which also praised China, reached the social media feeds of government oficials, including
some in China and Venezuela who retweeted posts from the fake accounts to millions of their followers. Full Text -> Snopes