Since Thursday, July 11, access to the websites of the Instituto de Prensa y Sociedad Venezuela (IPYS Venezuela) and the Venezuelan Observatory of Fake News (OVFN) has been restricted by the operators Cantv, Digitel, Movistar and NetUno, as well as Inter and Airtek, the providers that joined in the first case.

On the afternoon of July 12, the OVFN team, an initiative promoted by Medianalisis, reported through its social networks that its users could not access its portal from Cantv, Movistar and Digitel. The Go Without Filter program from the Conexión Segura y Libre organization, definite that Cantv uses DNS + HTTPS blocking; Movistar uses one of the HTTP/HTTPS types, and Digitel and NetUno use DNS type.

Ve sin Filtro analysis showed that the first measurement of blockage www.fakenewsvenezuela.org. It’s 6:00am on July 12th, so the lockdown started on Thursday the 11th and Friday the 12th.

Likewise, since the morning of July 12, readers of IPYS Venezuela have reported restrictions on access to the site by the country’s main Internet service providers. Members of the organization’s Network of Correspondents have confirmed the blocking of national and regional Internet companies in the states of Amazonas, Carabobo, Cojedes, Delta Amacuro, Falcon, Lara, Nueva Esparta, Sucre, Tachira and Zulia.

Do without a filter verified what is the domain www.ipysvenezuela.org has access restrictions from Cantv (DNS+HTTPS); Movistar (HTTP + HTTPS); as well as Digitel, Inter, NetUno and Airtek (DNS). According to the observatory’s analysis, the blockade began on the night of July 11.

IPYS Venezuela rejects the blocking of its website and the Venezuelan Fake News Observatory website. These censorship mechanisms limit the work to protect freedom of expression and access to information, as well as verify data.

These two cases involve four blockings of web portals of organizations defending freedom of the press or check information since the start of the election campaign on Thursday, July 4.