CNN blocked in Venezuela
CNN is broadcasting on YouTube after Venezuela shuts off CNN in Spanish after report on fraudulent passports. The ban comes as President Nicolas Maduro said he wants CNN ‘out of the country‘. Government media dominate the news, and CNN was qualified as ‘fake news‘, starting with a previous report on CNN that Maduro claimed the news channel ‘manipulated information about a student’s complaint regarding the lack of food at school‘, meddling in what is an internal Venezuelan topic.
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