Overview
- President Claudia Sheinbaum said the initiative to regulate ministers’ online content is not a government proposal and had not been reviewed by her administration.
- Morena deputy Arturo Ávila Anaya presented the reform to the 1992 religious associations law and, after talks with representatives of multiple faith communities, committed to pull it back.
- The draft would have required ministers and religious associations operating digital media to follow ATDT–Segob guidelines on digital rights, net neutrality, accessibility, and bans on hate speech and political proselytism, with adaptation periods and reporting duties.
- Religious leaders and civil-society groups denounced the plan as unconstitutional and a 'gag law,' while opposition figures warned it would place a government filter on faith speech.
- At the CIRT convention, Sheinbaum invited radio and TV owners to meet the Presidential Commission for Electoral Reform on official broadcast times and reiterated a no-censorship stance, as regulators and industry backed a participatory update of telecom and broadcasting rules to cover digital platforms and AI.