Disinformation

The European Union is holding seminars on June 18 in San Pedro Sula and June 22 in Tegucigalpa aimed at training journalists, academics, and civic actors to identify and counter disinformation, AI-generated content, and foreign interference threatening Honduras's information integrity and democracy.

Inauthentic social media accounts linked to a pro–Partido Nacional news outlet have systematically posted comments attacking the credibility and impartiality of the independent expert group investigating her murder, mimicking legal terminology to discredit the panel's January 2026 findings.

A collaborative investigation by Contracorriente and partners documents how companies in the EMCO mining group funded coordinated social-media campaigns branding Guapinol river defenders as "fake environmentalists" — a pattern linked to the killing of three activists and the exile of more than 400 others.

An examination by the international organization Witness of three of 37 leaked audios known as HondurasGate concluded that one recording, in which former president Juan Orlando Hernández allegedly asks current president Nasry Asfura for funds to create a digital operation against leftist movements in Mexico, Colombia, and Honduras, is probably genuine, while two others show signs of AI manipulation.