This image, which many claim to be official election results, has been seen by tens of millions of people.
It claims that the vote count is 109%.
But actually, all that happened is that the three minor opposition candidates pictured got 4.6% of the vote together, not each.
This is a simple data entry error from someone making an infographic for the TV.
These are not the official results. The official results add up to 100%.
Dishonest actors are promoting this to spread the idea that the official election results are fraudulent.
@ldejesusreyes People are claiming this image is from the national electoral council (CNE), and the charts on the screens show a Gonzalez victory.
But this isn't from the CNE at all. Rather, it is from Mercal Aragua, a totally different organization with no access to voting information.
The opposition is also blatantly using a bot network to boost their narrative on social media
HT: @JulianMaciasT
I know for a fact that this is fake news, because I was right there in this crowd as this video was taken.
It was, in fact, the opposition that tried to shut down this Caracas polling station.
A group of over 100 right-wing demonstrators crowded round the entrance to stop people from entering.
Elon Musk himself retweets a video purporting to show protestors tearing down a statue of President Hugo Chavez today.
But this video is from 2017.
The widely circulated images of a man in Aragua "murdered by government" are completely fake, as this video, shared by @BrianMteleSUR clearly shows. He just gets up and leaves, after he "dies".
Versions of this image, which purport to show a police officer pointing a gun at a defenseless woman and child, have been seen by millions of people.
But video evidence clearly shows that the police officer is unarmed, and is actually waving his arms at her.
HT: @JulianMaciasT
This is total nonsense. I've been speaking with people flying out from the airport, and it is operating completely normally. There is no takeover of the airport at all.
And as for Maduro, he just gave a speech tonight at the presidential palace, in front of thousands of people. So much for fleeing the country!
This video has 1.7 million views, and 21,000 likes. But it is highly misleading: the video is from 2017.
You'll never believe this, but Alex Jones is putting out fake news on Venezuela, falsely claiming Maduro has ordered the arreat of his opposition opponent, Edmundo Gonzalez.
In 2018, Facebook announced a deal with the Atlantic Council, which would give the latter significant influence over the world's news feeds, controlling what billions see -- and what they don't see.
The Atlantic Council is a Pentagon-funded think tank with no fewer than 7 former CIA directors on its board. It was founded as a NATO offshoot project, is staffed by NATO generals, and acts as the military alliance's brain.
In other words, giving the Atlantic Council control over 3 billion people's newsfeeds is a half-step away from state censorship, but on a global level.
Even more worryingly, Facebook is absolutely teeming with US spies.
My research has uncovered dozens of former national security state agents working in key positions in politically sensitive departments like Trust and Safety, Content Moderation, and Security.
Here, in this official Meta (Facebook) video, a guy called "Aaron" is identified as the company's face of content regulation.
You'd never guess from this video that Aaron is a CIA agent.
Football legend Diego Maradona showing his Fidel Castro tattoo to Castro himself (2001).
A poor boy from the slums of Buenos Aires, Maradona grew up to become a sporting legend.
Despite his riches, he remained a revolutionary socialist throughout his life; one who described Castro as a "father," and said that he "hated the United States with all my strength".
He also supported liberation struggles around the world. "In my heart I am Palestinian," Maradona said
Maradona with his Che Guevara tattoo.
Maradona with socialist president of Bolivia, Evo Morales, sporting a "Stop Bush" t-shirt.
He considered the US to be the center of capitalism and imperialism. "I hate everything that comes from the United States. I hate it with all my strength," he said.
Thread 🧵: I'm seeing a lot of US politicians express outrage at the Iranian strike on an Israeli hospital, so I thought I'd fill you all in on the shocking history of the US purposely bombing hospitals around the world.
In March, Trump carried out 14 separate attacks against the Al Rasool Al-Azam Oncology Hospital in Saada, Yemen, turning it into rubble.
The newly built Al Rasool Al-Azam Hospital was the centerpiece of the region’s healthcare network. Costing over $7.5 million, the center provided crucial treatment to hundreds of cancer patients who previously went without any care at all or faced an eight-and-a-half-hour round trip to the capital, Sanaa, for therapy.
The Anti-Cancer Fund, a local government medical organization, described the events as a clear “war crime.”
“These attacks are not just airstrikes, but systematic executions, intended to eliminate hope and wipe out life amid a suffocating blockade,” it said in a statement.
These images give a taste of what repeated US bombardment did to it.
Syria 🇸🇾
In 2017, on Trump's orders, US forces repeatedly bombed the National Hospital in Raqqa, Syria, carrying out 20 separate attacks against the building, including using white phosphorous munitions.
A highly controversial and widely-banned weapon, white phosphorous instantly ignites upon contact with oxygen, sticks to clothes and skin, and burns at an extremely high temperature. It cannot be extinguished by water, leaving those affected to suffer excruciating – and deadly – injuries.
At least 30 civilians were killed, some likely due to the effects of the white phosphorous, which causes respiratory damage and organ failure.
Thread🧵 In light of Iran's allegations about WhatsApp sharing user location data with Israel, it's important to understand how deep Israeli intelligence penetration of big tech firms goes.
Firstly, Meta (WhatsApp's parent company) is filled with former intelligence agents from the Israeli Defense Force's elite cyberwarfare battalion, Unit 8200.
Chief among these is Emi Palmor, who sits on Meta's Oversight Board - a 21-person panel that ultimately dictates the direction of the company, deciding what content is allowed and what is disallowed.
Palmor is a former Israeli spy and later went on to become General Director of the Israeli Ministry of Justice. In this role, she directly oversaw the stripping away of Palestinian rights and created a so-called “Internet Referral Unit” which would find and aggressively push Facebook to delete Palestinian content on its platform that the Israeli government objected to.
Another important person at Meta is Eyal Klein, head of data science.
Klein spent six years in Unit 8200, rising to the rank of captain.