Two weeks ago, the highly respected Mexican journalist Carmen Aristegui co-published an investigation showing President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s hand-selected director of the federal news agency Notimex was using fake Twitter accounts to attack journalists, including her. But the response wasn’t condemnation or calls for a serious investigation: instead AMLO, as the president is known, said in a news conference that he believed both sides.
In the meantime, there were sustained, pro-AMLO bot attacks made to trend on social media and a volley of pro-AMLO individuals joining in to make sexist and deeply personal attacks on Aristegui, an investigative journalist with a long trajectory in Mexico. On Tuesday, another trending topic emerged saying, #ApagaAristegui, or turn off Aristegui.
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Source: Attacks against Carmen Aristegui and other journalists in Mexico are intensifying – The Washington Post
