Video: Luis Carlos Vélez spoke of the bullying he suffered on Twitter in full coverage of the US elections.



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Luis Carlos Velez / Twitter
Luis Carlos Velez / Twitter

This Saturday, the Colombian journalist Luis Carlos Vélez uploaded a video to his Twitter account in which he exposes the cyberbullying that he experienced -and still lives- after issuing an analysis in full coverage of the US presidential elections.

Live for RCN News, Vélez said: “It would have to be a very great act of chivalry by Joe Biden to say: -man I don’t want a very big pain in this country and I am going to concede-, because on the side of Donald Trump he is going to take out all the legal battery to make this a lot slower”. This interpretation, which many understood as an improbable and out of place possibility in light of the results, ended up going viral on the social network until turning the journalist into a national trend since November 4.

Luis Carlos Vélez on Biden in the US voting.

At the time, the director of La FM pointed out that the video was taken out of context. Message that he repeated this Saturday in a video that he uploaded to his personal account and where he also exposes the situation he has faced these days due to the bullying he has received for that comment.

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“After much thought, I post this video and I do it thinking about my family,” said the journalist. And I add: “Cyberbullying in networks is real, it creates and leaves traces. It affects people, there are multiple studies that say that people who are victims of bullying on social networks get depressed and even think about suicide “.

The political analyst pointed out that he was a victim of cyberbullying while covering the elections. “They cut a video, edited it, and started filming something that I didn’t say,” Velez explained.

I never said that Joe Biden should concede, I just showed a hypothetical scenario and tried to give some explanations. Sure things can be said better, but it cannot happen is that they use us as prey to destroy us.

The journalist ended the video by noting that he was uploading it because he is worried about what is happening and that his family is involved in it.

Luis Carlos Vélez received the support of other journalists such as Vicky Dávila and Andrea Bernal.

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Faced with the United States elections, after more than four days of a complex vote count, Joe biden He achieved victory in the states of Pennsylvania and Nevada, which gave him a minimum of 290 electoral votes, surpassing the 270 necessary to consecrate himself as President-elect of the United States. The results in these states were confirmed by the agency AP and the mainstream media, but President Donald Trump is far from acknowledging defeat. On the contrary, it has denounced fraud in the most contested districts and initiated lawsuits there. The dispute could escalate to the Supreme Court of the United States.

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