Latest · April 2, 2025
'El Detector de Mentiras' – Mañanera, Week 14/2025
“El Detector de Mentiras” (The Lie Detector) is a Wednesday segment from the daily presidential press conference (“Mañanera”) in Mexico, produced by “Infodemia”.
Section
Fact-checking
Claims about Mexico and Mexicans, checked.
‘Drug cartels killed 35 presidential candidates so Sheinbaum could win.’: A massive US X account behind a campaign of lies
An account with nearly 350,000 followers producing disinformation aligned with President Donald Trump is the author of many smear campaigns against Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum and is being replicated by Mexican opposition politicians and fake news sites.
China in Mexico’s Tren Maya? Republican lawmakers use lies to pressure President Sheinbaum
Representative August Pfluger of Texas' 11th District and 35 Republican lawmakers fabricated a false suspicion of Chinese economic intervention in Mexico's Tren Maya project.
The New York Times reports an adventurous visit to a fake fentanyl lab
This note is based on a Grecko’s social-network publication posted on Dec. 30th, 2024.