"In Mexico, a total of 562 cybercrimes of federal jurisdiction against freedom of expression have been registered in the last two and a half years. These crimes range from threats to journalists to computer attacks to take media websites down.
This places cybercrimes against freedom of expression as the main incidence to digital platforms for the third consecutive year (2020, 2021 and in the first half of 2022), according to a report by the Cyber Investigations and Technological Operations Unit (UICOT, for its acronym in Spanish) of Mexico's Attorney General's Office.
In addition, cybercrimes against freedom of expression are on the rise. In 2019, the UICOT registered 71 cases. In 2020, when this type of crime occupied the first place [of incidences] for the first time, there were 164 cases. By 2021, 236 complaints were filed (43.9 percent more than in 2020), and as of July 2022, [there have been] 91 complaints."
