And I've heard of him before, the government there is very upset at him.
This is a fantastic service, and I will support it any way I can. I was looking for a way to make a donation, but it appears to be ad-supported.
This shows how advances in technology can help people. In the cold war, the US was able to use Radio Free Europe to reach some of the oppressed people in Eastern Europe. Now one man can both help the people of his former homeland set prices, and understand the lies they are being told every day.
And is fine, we all get it, socialism sucks and specially venezuela's socialist government sucks but acting like dolartoday is a totally legit website doing some good job just makes me sick even more when they make him look like they are a charity or something.
Just translating some of their latest headlines:
From: https://dolartoday.com/asesina-sus-dos-hijastros-porque-se-c...
"father Kills his 2 stepsons because they ate more bread since they were still hungry after their lunch- full caps"... oh come pretty sad news coming from Venezuela, but do you really need to write it in full caps and try to make it this bad? the story repeats for every single "news" article that they post".
There is tons of news coming from an entire country, yet they only publish whatever clicks them the most or whatever would make someone angry.
Not to mention their tweeter feed, is just plain example of yellow journalism
Well they dont even generate their own content, they actually full copy paste news from regular media most of the time without giving any credits, add the super impressive touch (caps, overexageration, image edition) and go full spam it for their readers.
They are a well known source of ENTIRELY FAKE NEWS like the one some days ago: https://dolartoday.com/corralito-financiero-sudeban-ordena-l...
The tittle for this was something like implying that venezuela has implemented a corralito [1] and and ordered banks to limit all cash transactions to 10.000 VEF while the real news [2] was that venezuela increased the limit of cross bank ATM cash withdrawal from 600 to 10.000 VEF
Of course, the initial fake news generated an insanely collective panic inside the population and obviously the people was victim again from missinformation from this website. The panic got so high that the goverment had to release a press conference asking people to please calm down and understand what really happened.
I dont really want to go into more details of how much of an impact have this website economically, is really complicated, but believe when I say that this people are actually ABLE to modificate the market. If someone wants I can easy give you explanations of how this website does really affect our economy.
Btw, the part where it says that he only gets 4,5k USD from this website it's hillarious, but thats another subject.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corralito [2] http://www.elcorreodelorinoco.com/comunicado-de-sudeban-banc...
