the expressions of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador against the press can encourage attacks on journalists, he warned the organization Article 19.
In a report card on the first 100 days of Government, he pointed out that you intensified intolerance to criticism and dissenting speech.
Lee: A network of bots and trolls attacking Twitter media and critics of the Government from December 2018 the date, article 19 has documented four cases of aggression against journalists and media through social networks after the coverage made at conferences morning or tours of the President.
One of the attacks was against Animal political reporter, who asked Lopez Obrador about Odebrecht case investigations; against a reporter for however, and others whose identity reserved the organization.
In accordance with article 19, aggressors, through Twitter, Facebook and Youtube accounts, seek to intimidate and harass journalists who reported or thought about conferences through smear campaigns.
In addition, the organization referred to the adjectives “fifi press” and “journalists chayoteros” employed by Lopez Obrador.
He stressed, “even at morning Conference on March 8, the President intensified the speech against the newspaper reform, pointing out that ‘ is a newspaper that arises in the Government of Salinas, which has sought not to touch to Salinas, who questioned not the looting in” the neo-liberal period, which simulated that you fighting corruption (…) who helped in the electoral fraud ‘ “, recalled the organization.”
“This speech can legitimise and encourage attacks against journalists in digital, physical and affects the plurality of the public debate,” he said.
In the first #100DiasDeGobierno of @lopezobrador_ has intensified intolerance to criticism and dissenting speech.
The positioning of ARTICLE 19 reads: https://t.co/XDRbyHB6u8 pic.twitter.com/1M8Po1ZvL7 – ARTICLE 19 MX-CA (@article19mex) March 13, 2019, he said, increases the level of vulnerability and risk journalists in the country are facing the most dangerous to exercise freedom of speech in America, where only in the Presidency of Enrique Peña Nieto were documented 47 murders and four disappearances of journalists probably linked to his work.
Article 19 demanded the President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to issue a public message in which rejects any aggression against journalists that may occur during the coverage of any public event of the Presidency.
“The head of State must recognize unequivocally the importance of a free press in a democracy,” he said in a statement.
AMLO denies group to defend themselves in this network diagnostics organization joins the report yesterday from the ITESO Signa_Lab, which warns that you accounts generating content, bots, semibots, trolls and fans make up a network coordinated on Twitter to attack en masse to media and users who are critical of the Government in Mexico.
The report democracy, freedom of expression and the digital sphere. Trend analysis and topology on Twitter. The case of the #RedAMLOVE exhibits strategies for positioning messages that celebrate the actions of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, or campaigns to ridicule and discredit people and news media.
To be questioned on this study, the President denied that there is a group moved by the Government to defend are those who questioned it or criticize. “There is that, we don’t have bots”.
He said that there is will be respect for the media, it shall not restrict the freedom of expression, “but if we are going to exercise our right of reply”.
“Bad it would be if there was an attitude of persecution, that came out to denounce the newspaper Reforma, which by a debt or alleged debt of 20 thousand pesos is harassing you because we don’t like what you are writing, on the part of the Government is passed, or” “, it was too much, we will not ever disrespect to the media, much less prosecute anyone”.
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