Fake news has long been disseminated during electoral campaigns in Mexico and the current electoral cycle is far from being the exception
Since June, when Mexico’s ruling party, Morena, and the country’s main opposition parties launched their internal proceedings to pick their contenders for the 2024 race, The Associated Press Spanish-language fact-checking team found about 40 fake publications across social media platforms, favouring or discrediting members of both sides of the political spectrum.
He points at a recent incident in which Lopez Obrador and his supporters accused Xochitl Galvez, a presumptive opposition presidential hopeful at the time, of planning to end a host of popular social programs implemented by his government if she were to win the presidency. Morena did not respond to a request for comment about accusations of being behind falsehoods regarding the opposition.
One of those publications erroneously asserted that Sheinbaum was not born in Mexico, but in Bulgaria, thus making her ineligible to run for office. Among the falsehoods that circulated online was a claim that the markers handed out to voters to cast their vote could be easily erased, thus making it possible to vote again, giving rise to electoral fraud.
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