Overview

• Ricardo Monreal, who leads Morena in the Chamber of Deputies, said the initiative will not pass and vowed to vote against it, arguing it infringes freedom of expression.
• The bill from Morena deputy Armando Corona Arvizu would add Articles 211 Bis 8 and 211 Bis 9 to the Federal Penal Code to criminalize creating or distributing AI‑altered images, audio or video without consent, with penalties of three to six years in prison and fines of 300 to 600 days.
• Punishments would increase by up to half when the victim is a minor, a person with disabilities or a public official, or when dissemination is massive or causes demonstrable personal, work or psychological harm.
• Digital‑rights groups, including Article 19, caution that ambiguous terms such as ridiculing or harming reputation could be applied to memes, stickers and satire, enabling discretionary censorship.
• Corona restricted access to his social‑media accounts after the controversy and has cited INEGI data showing 18.9 million cyberharassment victims in 2024 and a reported 220% rise in AI‑linked fraud as justification for new penalties.