Communications Congress From Venezuela Calls for Countering Digital Disinformation
A woman attending at the International Communication Congress, Caracas, Venezuela. Jan. 12, 2025. X/ @VenCuba23
January 13, 2025 Hour: 11:44 am
This event is building a network to break the blockade of censorship, lies, and ignorance, said Fernando Buen Abad.
On Sunday, over 400 delegates from 100 countries gathered at the Third International Communication Congress to discuss strategies for building a communication network to confront fascism.
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Participants debated topics such as disinformation, media blockades, artificial intelligence, digital capitalism, and other instruments of hegemony used by transnational corporations to restrict digital spaces for the world’s peoples.
For two days, the discussions were enriched by prominent Ibero-American intellectuals, including Fernando Buen Abad (Mexico), Maria Fernanda Ruiz (Argentina), Pascual Serrano (Spain), and Ernesto Limia (Cuba).
In recent weeks, Venezuela has been the target of a fierce media campaign aiming to portray this South American country as the epicenter of regional violence.
In response, social organizations from 77 countries formed the “International Anti-Fascist Network for a New World” in Caracas. This network seeks to safeguard fundamental rights against the neo-colonial fascism that accompanies the imperialist ambitions of the United States.
“This congress is gathering extensive experience and building a vast network of networks to break the blockade of censorship, the blockade of lies, the blockade of ignorance, and all the blockades that have attempted to suffocate a country as flourishing, positive, and great as Venezuela,” said Buen Abad.
“Venezuela shows the world the significant progress it has achieved and the truth that hegemonic media, allied with international fascism, have tried so hard to conceal,” said Venezuela’s Minister of Science and Technology, Gabriela Jimenez.
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