The head of the Cuauhtémoc mayor's office, Alessandra Rojo de la Vega, presented the digital platform 'Operation Truth', an online tool aimed at verifying information and combating fake news and digital attacks directed against her administration. The announcement was made during a press conference, where the capital city mayor explained that the initiative responds to the increase in false content disseminated on social media and digital spaces. According to the mayor, Operation Truth will function as a fact-checking center, open to the public and the media. She stated that the platform will allow for the identification of false information, to be contrasted with verifiable data, and to present documentary evidence to clarify each case. In an initial review, the local government reported having documented 46 cases of disinformation, which are now available for public consultation. During her speech, Rojo de la Vega stated: 'When I went into politics, I made a very clear commitment: to break with old practices, not to lie to the people, and not to disappear after asking for their vote,' asserting that her administration's strategy against disinformation will be the exposure of facts and verifiable data. She specified that the platform will have various tools, including an immediate verification search engine to review information disseminated on social networks; a catalog of retractions with photographic, documentary, and audiovisual backing; a section for digital forensic analysis, focused on identifying disinformation patterns; and a citizen participation module to report content that requires verification. When questioned about the development cost, the mayor clarified that 'it had no cost, we built it in two days... no company was hired,' specifying that it was developed by the Mayor's Office Digital Innovation Directorate. At the same conference, she announced she had made public the results of a voluntary toxicology test to respond to personal allegations disseminated on social media and announced that a second test would be published on the same platform. During the conference, the mayor also referred to the Cuauhtémoc Mayor's Office contracts platform, which had experienced technical intermittencies in recent days. She explained that the transparency website was in the process of being restored and that the work for its recovery was ongoing at the time of the announcement. However, she specified that this situation does not prevent access to the contractual information of the demarcation, as current contracts can be consulted on the transparency portal of the Government of Mexico City, where the corresponding information for the mayor's office is available while the local site's functionality is normalized.
