Controversial false news of the electoral process in Mexico discovered by Verified 2018



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* The name of the platform is derived from a hashtag that was used to share information during the 19S rescue efforts

* Since March 2018, the platform is dedicated to the refusal [19659002] false news of the electoral process in Mexico

The war against the false news about the presidential candidates of Mexico is a battle that has been fought daily during the last three months and in which, the platform Verified 2018 had a preponderant role in denying the falsification of the information that swarmed in the network.

The platform formed by some 60 media, institutions and organizations of Mexican civil society joined the public conversation of the elections since last March.

Since then, the collective has verified, from information from the network, data from the campaign proposals and the statements of the candidates themselves.

Here are some of the most improbable notes that were denied by Verified 2018 during campaigns for President:

Pope Francis vs. AMLO

In this case, the figure of Pope Francis was used to confront that of the politician Tabasco Andrés Manuel López Obrador through an edited video in which the Sovereign Pontiff was referring to ideologies and dictatorships.

In this material, the Pope badures that "ideologies end badly, they do not work […] they have an incomplete relationship, sick or bad with the people". These statements were directed against AMLO, according to the video that broadcast them.

However, Verified 2018 proved that the Pope's statements dated from 2015 during a visit of the Catholic ruler to Paraguay and that he had never made any reference to the mexican politician.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxWKX_GcMsM

The Investigation of The New York Times That Never existed

The polls were another front battle during the elections of 2018 and they also multiplied the false news.

One of them involved the reputed American newspaper The New York Times which, allegedly, had conducted an investigation whose results put the PRI candidate, Jose Antonio Meade to 42% of the electoral preferences, relegating AMLO to the second place with 31% of them and the PAN Ricardo Anaya with only 18%.

Verified 2018 consulted Elías López, editor of the newspaper in his Spanish version, and he said he had not conducted an investigation into the presidential election in Mexico.

Ricardo Anaya is a relative of former President Carlos Salinas de Gortari

Former President Carlos Salinas of Gortari He is one of the most controversial political figures of contemporary Mexico. His controversial and polarized figure, which was used to link him with the candidate Ricardo Anaya Cortés in a false information.

The publication in question was a collage of images that implied that Carolina Martínez (wife of Anaya) and Ana Cecilia Martínez (wife of Raúl Salinas brother of Carlos ) were sisters

There was also a picture of José Antonio González Anaya, current secretary of the Treasury, who was the brother of the candidate, with his wife Gabriela Gerard, who was in turn the sister of Ana Paula Gerard, wife of Carlos Salinas. [19659008]

The kinship quadrilateral, however, turned out to be false since Ricardo Anaya is not a brother-in-law of Rául Salinas and is not the brother either José Antonio González Anaya; The only thing true about the picture is that the head of the Treasury is politically linked to Carlos Salinas.

The wife of AMLO … granddaughter of a Nazi?

Amor a México A missing Facebook page with political content, publishes an image showing AMLO accompanied by his wife Beatriz Gutierrez Müller to whom they add the following text:

"What you did not know on the wife of AMLO […] Granddaughter of General Heinrich Muller of the SS division and Nazi war criminal, known as Gestapo Müller ".

According to Verified 2018 the image reached to accumulate up to 12,782 reactions, but after checking Müller's birth certificate, it was proved that the accusations were false.

"Entrepreneurs" vs AMLO

Easy creation and manipulation of images allowed users of the network shared photographs of supposed entrepreneurs who would be against the Morenoist candidate.

These images were accompanied by extravagant plans to allegedly withdraw investments from the country in the event that AMLO was the winner of the contest and there were even others who were talking about plans to put end to his life.

The platform has detected that in one of these images the photograph corresponds to a bad actor (Jhonny Sins) who, according to the falsified information, was an industrialist who would "use" all his money to prevent AMLO from being killed. to reach power. [19659008]

Russia and its alleged support for AMLO

The alleged Russian interference in favor of the AMLO candidate was another of favorite subjects of false news during the electoral process.

In this regard, Verified 2018 detected the circulation of a video in which it was claimed that the government of Vladimir Putin decided to give support to the Tabasco.

Taking pictures of a Russian newscast, the alleged clip allegedly showed images of AMLO while presenters Aleksey Kazakov and Ekaterina Gregorevna reportedly reported the decision of the Russian administration [19659039].

However, in investigating this video, Verified 2018 found that filming – which was spoken in Russian and subtitled in Spanish – changed the reporters' sayings: in fact, the original note spoke of the bodybuilder Krillin Tereshin and his way of gaining muscle mbad by injecting substances.

Nicolás Maduro supports AMLO

Andrés Manuel López Obrador has argued three times for the post of President of Mexico (2006, 2012 and 2018 ) and throughout the Venezuelan agents' regime was linked.

In 2006 and 2012, he was designated as close to President Hugo Chávez, and in the current campaign he was linked to President Nicolás Maduro.

According to Recovered Verified: 2018 March 6th Facebook page Callodehacha published a supposedly original video of the channel Venevisión in which Maduro made public his aid to AMLO.

The platform investigated in this regard in consultation with journalists from that country and concluded that the video had been edited for use as Venezuelan television. But more specifically, it was denied that Maduro had explicitly supported López Obrador.

After the false information was refused, the page that published it immediately deleted the content of its networks.

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