On June 30, 2021, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s morning press conference added a weekly section called “Quién es quién en las mentiras de la semana” (Who is who in the lies of the week). Each Wednesday, Ana Elizabeth García Vilchis presented statements by journalists, commentators and social media users and labeled them false.
The next day, the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights asked the government to reconsider the section. The government replied that what it stigmatized was “the lie or the slander,” not journalists.