Two administrators of the anonymous Facebook “news and media” page Tijuana 664 were gunned down Saturday night in front of their home, according to local law enforcement authorities.
Anonymous Facebook pages in Tijuana often purport to be offering news, but the content can run the gambit from memes to copy-and-pasted stories from mainstream news organizations to insider crime blogs that offer explicit details about violence in the border city. Many local journalists have publicly spoken out about how the existence of these anonymous pages puts their safety at risk by both encouraging violence and by creating confusion among the public about the role of journalists.
The lines aren’t always perfectly clear, according to people who run the pages, human rights groups and civil organizations, who have pushed Facebook to continue allowing for anonymity. Some bloggers who run anonymous narco-news sites argue the only safe way to report on rivaling drug cartels is to remain anonymous.
Anonymous Facebook pages may have played a role in the Jan. 17 killing of longtime Tijuana veteran photojournalist Margarito Martínez, who was gunned down in front of his home.
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