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Coordinated YouTube campaign aims to legitimize image of Venezuela's Delcy Rodríguez

More than 50 videos on YouTube featuring actors posing as journalists have amassed 32 million views in a coordinated push to legitimize Interim President Delcy Rodríguez. The campaign, spanning 14 channels, is connected to the Buenos Aires-based advertising agency FG Medios Sociedad Anónima. Cazadores de Fake News determined the presenters who narrate the videos are […]

Venezuela press union calls for amnesty law to recognize persecution of journalists

“The National Union of Press Workers (SNTP) of Venezuela requested Monday that a pending amnesty law recognize the persecution of journalists and demanded an 'express' commitment from the state to ‘never again’ use criminal law against the practice of journalism. Parliament is expected to approve the law this week. At a press conference, SNTP General […]

Officials detain DW Spanish correspondent in Caracas for hours

Journalist Álvaro Algarra, a correspondent in Caracas for the German television network DW Spanish, was taken from his home on Wednesday, Feb. 4, by officials dressed in blue. By midday, his family did not know his whereabouts. It was later reported that he had returned home. Read the full article in Spanish.