Overview
- The presidency published a seven‑month analysis that it says traces a four‑layer ecosystem of coordinated posting that targets the Fourth Transformation and President Claudia Sheinbaum.
- The report tracked 98 seed accounts from Jan. 1 to Aug. 8 and assigns roles to each layer: 54 high‑reach media/commentator accounts that originate messages, 32 political personalities that repurpose them, 34 attack/troll accounts that repackage them, and a fourth‑layer amplification ring of about 560,520 mostly automated accounts.
- The office quantified activity by layer — roughly 282,866 posts from originators, 67,215 from political personalities, 213,580 from attack accounts, and about 22 million posts from the amplification ring — and gave an example of a single bot that produced about 36 posts a day and accounted for roughly 30% of daily movement.
- Officials said the network edits and republishes content to damage the government’s image using themes such as “narcogobierno,” fuel‑theft scandals, claims of an authoritarian regime, and alleged U.S. pressure, and they reported traces of activity linked to accounts in Venezuela, Colombia, Argentina, the United States and Spain.
- The presentation, shown on Wednesday, prompted pushback from journalists and politicians and drew a government clarification that named accounts were tracked to map amplification rather than to accuse original publishers, while the study itself awaits independent verification and any platform or legal responses.