Overview
- On Wednesday, September 30, Reporters Without Borders drove an LED‑screen truck through central Paris to project President Javier Milei’s insulting social‑media quotes and to stage a visible protest during his Argentina Week visit.
- RSF published a monitoring report showing that between April and May 2026 Milei published or shared 1,674 hostile items about journalists in 47 days, including 1,499 retweets, 151 quoted tweets with comments, and 21 direct posts.
- The NGO says Milei’s rhetoric combines repeated corruption accusations and slogans such as the 'NOL$ALP' acronym to delegitimize reporters, and it warns this official messaging creates a hostile climate for journalism.
- RSF highlighted institutional effects it attributes to the administration’s stance, noting Argentina fell 58 places to 98th of 180 in RSF’s 2026 World Press Freedom index and citing measures like cuts to official advertising and access restrictions.
- Civil society groups in Paris, including the Assembly of Argentine Citizens in France, joined the action and filed a petition to declare Milei persona non grata, a move that could put human‑rights and press freedom on the agenda of his bilateral meetings and investor sessions.