Dear audience: This November 13, at approximately 4:30 in the afternoon, we were alerted about an identity theft in our YouTube channel, Confidencial Nica, where we have more than 398,000 followers. During the unauthorized access, they changed our name to “Tesla Live”, replaced our logo, removed our description, and started a live broadcast of a video using the likeness of the tech mogul Elon Muskstarring in an international scam with alleged cryptocurrencies.
The team of CONFIDENTIAL stopped streaming immediately, and with access to our accounts, we restored our information and over 7,000 videos that were hidden during the impersonation. In addition, at 10:30 p.m. we broadcast our transmission of This weekoriginally scheduled for 8:00 p.m.
However, the YouTube team informed us that our channel is temporarily suspended as part of their protocol against this type of impersonation. We are taking all the corresponding actions and the case of our channel is already under review. We trust that soon we will resume our broadcasts.
The scam that uses the image of Elon Musk with alleged cryptocurrencies is a modus operandi that has affected various accounts around the world, especially in the last six months. Musk has already denounced the use of his image in these types of scams. And the YouTube team reviews each of these incidents that are reported on a case-by-case basis following its mechanisms.
CONFIDENTIALwith its YouTube channel, is a Nicaraguan media outlet directed by journalist Carlos Fernando Chamorro, who is a victim of censorship of press freedom in Nicaragua. In 2019, the Government of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo censored our broadcasts on open television and our YouTube channel is one of the last spaces in defense of democracy, with independent and verified information on the situation in Nicaragua, plunged into a crisis of violation of human rights and public liberties that has worsened since the massacre against the citizen protests of the April Rebellion of 2018.
Between April and September 2018, more than 300 Nicaraguans were killed by the regime and thousands more were injured. In addition, more than a thousand citizens have been imprisoned for their ideas and the exercise and defense of their rights, with more than 200 political prisoners still in prison or under the “house by jail” regime. Hundreds of thousands more have been forced into exile due to political persecution, including our director and our journalistic team. However, we continue to report on what is happening in Nicaragua and soon we will resume our broadcasts on our YouTube channel.
We appreciate your trust and solidarity and we invite you to continue paying attention to our social networks at Facebook Y Twitter and our website confidential.digitalwhere we will inform you everything related to this topic.
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