Mexico moves to outlaw foreign propaganda after US runs anti-migrant ad across border

Mexico moves to outlaw foreign propaganda after US runs anti-migrant ad across border

A reform was presented to the Mexican Senate to bar foreign governments from spreading propaganda after the U.S. DHS airs anti-migrant ad campaign

‘The issue of immigration is a matter of humanity’: Mexican citizens react to US’ anti-immigration commercials

The Department of Homeland security has been releasing anti-immigration commercials to air on Mexican television in recent weeks, upsetting some Mexican citizens, saying it’s ‘unacceptable’.

Mexican government to issue fines for broadcasting foreign political propaganda

For the foreseeable future, if Televisa or any other broadcast licensee airs Donald Trump’s controversial anti-immigrant campaign, they will pay dearly. Literally. Claudia Sheinbaum’s government is pushing through a reform to the law in which fines of between 2% and 5% of the total income of the concessionaire that broadcasts propaganda from foreign governments will be applied. Taking into account the main Mexican broadcasting concessionaires — …

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After the controversy over the Mexican television broadcast of a commercial in which US National Security headline Kristi Noem threatens to "hun" and deport those who attempt to cross the border without papers, the Mexican government sent a proposal to the legislature to prevent foreign propaganda from reaching the country.

Measure is part of a package of changes to Telecom Law that also includes power to block digital platforms. Senate joint commissions approved on Thursday a controversial reform to the Federal Telecommunications and Broadcasting Law that establishes the express prohibition of broadcasting advertising originating abroad in Mexican media. The provision was approved in an accelerated process that lasted barely two and a half hours, with 29 votes in …