Alejandro ALFIE

Journalist and writer Alejandro Alfie continued to face judicial and other forms of harassment in 2025.  

On 3 May 2025, one pro-government account posted a photo of Alfie with a stigmatizing caption. The same day, another pro-government account published a lengthy report that also smeared Alfie. Local organisations recorded these attacks and the stigmatising rhetoric coming from individuals close to those in power, noting that both were stigmatising a journalist investigating those behind social media accounts aligned with the official administration. 

In April 2025, Alfie reported that Esteban Glavinich, (owner of the X account @TraductorTeAma) had continued his efforts to buy shares in the newspaper El Clarín to launch an attempt at a shareholders’ meeting in April 2025 to demand Alfie’s dismissal from the newspaper. Also, between August and October 2025, the Asociación de Entidades Periodísticas Argentinas (ADEPA – the Association of Argentine Journalism Entities) publicly expressed its solidarity with Alfie in response to a civil lawsuit filed by Pablo Toviggino, treasurer of the Argentine Football Association (AFA), who sought 20 million pesos and a public correction from Alfie over articles linked to matters of public interest. By November 2025, various reports indicated that Alfie was facing multiple simultaneous civil proceedings, consolidating a pattern of repeated litigation, amounting to strategic lawsuits against public participation (SLAPPs), aimed at undermining his journalistic work (see Case List 2025). 

Alejandro Alfie is a journalist for the newspaper Clarín. He is the host of the programme ‘ConTacto Digital’ (Radio Rivadavia AM630) and an assistant professor of Comparative Legislation in the Communication Sciences programme in the University of Buenos Aires. He is the author of the investigative non-fiction book Los agentes de Néstor y Cristina (Néstor and Cristina's agents, Les Imaginateurs S.R.L, 2015) and the novel Hambre de piel en la sociedad de control (2004) (Hunger for flesh in the surveillance society).