"Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum on Tuesday defended a new set of [proposed] regulations on audience rights. The controversy surrounding the measure has escalated in recent days, reaching the president's daily morning news conference. After several days of criticism and expressions of concern from news organizations, experts, civil society groups and opposition leaders — who have warned that the rules could threaten freedom of expression in Mexico — the government insists it will neither determine what is true nor punish journalistic content.
Sheinbaum said the regulations are intended to strengthen the public's right to receive information, not to create a mechanism for censorship. 'Just as the government must be transparent, news media must also have a code of ethics to guarantee the public's right to information,' she said at the National Palace.
The president's remarks came after the launch of a public consultation led by the Telecommunications Regulatory Commission, an initiative promoted by the Digital Transformation and Telecommunications Agency. The proposal has sparked an intense debate over the scope of the new obligations for radio and television broadcasters. The most controversial provision requires broadcasters to distinguish between news and opinion, a requirement that critics argue could result in indirect government interference in editorial decision-making."
Read the original article (in Spanish)
This story was translated with assistance of AI and reviewed by Alejandro Martínez-Cabrera
