Interview with Andy Yen, CEO of Proton VPN
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As the official campaigning period in Venezuela’s presidential election began earlier this summer, one by one, news websites started to go offline. First, two fact-checking websites, Cazadores de Fake News and Es Paja, went dark for Venezuelan users. Within a week, a handful of other fact-checking and civil society sites were blocked. As election day approached, the blocks snowballed, with more than 70 media outlets and NGO sites—and even Wikipedia—inaccessible by the end of the month.
As the official campaigning period in Venezuela’s presidential election began earlier this summer, one by one, news websites started to go offline. First, two fact-checking websites, Cazadores de Fake News and Es Paja, went dark for Venezuelan users. Within a week, a handful of other fact-checking and civil society sites were blocked. As election day approached, the blocks snowballed, with more than 70 media outlets and NGO sites—and even Wikipedia—inaccessible by the end of the month.