Widespread Internet and Social Media Black-Outs Are Being Reported In Venezuela

Confirmed: Evidence of total internet blackouts across regions of #Venezuela lasting over 28 hours; increasingly severe disruptions now in effect #KeepItOnhttps://t.co/nHAY8vznIG pic.twitter.com/P5OY7hN5y6

— NetBlocks.org (@netblocks) January 27, 2019

Business Insider: Venezuela's Maduro has been blacking out social media — and sometimes the whole internet — to stifle its US-backed opposition

* Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro's regime has been systematically blacking out the country's internet and social media.
* Platforms including YouTube, Instagram, and Facebook were blocked during the exact time Maduro opponent Juan Guaidó made important speeches, the NGO NetBlocks said.
* Blacking out the internet is especially bad for Guaidó's popularity as Maduro's government controls most of the country's TV and radio outlets.
* Law-enforcement authorities loyal to Maduro have also physically attacked and threatened reporters and the president's opponents.

Venezuela's embattled President Nicolás Maduro has been blacking out his country's social media, and at times the entire internet.

The outages are brief, and appear timed deliberately to block people from listening to his opponents.

Periscope, YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram went down between 9:02 p.m. and 9:14 p.m. on Monday, said NetBlocks, a non-governmental organization that tracks internet blackouts.

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WNU Editor: For the past week I have not heard from my one source in Caracas, and other sources that I check out on social media have not been updated for the past few days. Today is also the day when large demonstrations against the Maduro regime are planned.Will they be effective in stopping the opposition's message? I am willing to bet that they will not.