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Venezuela’s president Nicol\u00e1s Maduro has blocked <\/a> in the country <\/a> after claiming that the platform’s owner <\/a> had incited hatred and “violated” his own social network’s rules. “Shame on Dictator Maduro,” <\/a>, who <\/a> that the incumbent president had committed “major election fraud.”<\/p>\n Maduro, who also argued that his rivals were using the platform to stoke political unrest, said he greenlit a proposal by the national telecoms authority to “remove the social network X, formerly known as Twitter, from circulation in Venezuela for 10 days.” That’s according to the <\/em><\/a>, which said its reporters in the country were unable to access X after the proclamation. X does not have a public relations department that can be reached for comment.<\/p>\n While Musk has arguably fanned the flames of the situation in Venezuela, Maduro could be using him as a scapegoat so he has a pretext to temporarily block X and attempt to quash discussion of election results. The president claimed victory in July’s presidential election, but the outcome has been disputed<\/a>.<\/p>\n Independent exit polls and reviews of voting machine data indicated that Maduro’s opposition, Edmundo Gonz\u00e1lez, may have received twice as many votes as the incumbent. The Maduro-controlled national electoral council however claimed that Maduro had a 52 percent share of the vote with Gonz\u00e1lez taking 43 percent. The council has not yet produced voting tallies as is required by law.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n