Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

‘Fake News’ on social media results in vigilante killings in Mexico

First Puebla. Then Hidalgo and Mexico City. In the three cities, there have been cases in which mobs lynched and killed innocent people who were identified as kidnappers. In all cases, there is one element in common: fake news spread through social networks.

Jalisco has not been spared from the fake news phenomenon, but luckily it has not resulted in the death of innocent people, yet. Three young men were arrested last August in Casimiro Castillo for "stealing children," accused by a woman who only saw them in a photograph on the Internet. However, when the police station investigated, they . . .

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