Several Venezuelan cartoonists, journalists, writers and artists have been the target of a series of threats through Twitter, telephone and text messages [1], according to news portal Noticias 24. They began after a number of anonymous users spread the victims’ personal contact information [2], said the Press and Society Institute in Venezuela (Ipys in Spanish).
Alejandro Martínez from The Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas Blog reports [3] on a new [4] wave of threats [5] against journalists and media workers.
Martinez adds that this year Ipys Venezuela has registered “25 violations against the integrity of journalists and eight cyber-attacks.”