In today’s world, there are many forms of media capture, which basically refers to the way powerful interests and actors control the media’s informational agenda, curtailing its independence and affecting its watchdog role (Schiffrin 2021). While it may be somewhat evident that media capture exists in authoritarian regimes, even democracies may experience different forms of capture by corporate actors who own media organisations or run the platforms through which most information is consumed (Foroohar 2021; Usher 2021). Transitional regimes in Latin America, like Mexico, show specific forms of media capture, defined in terms of a liberal-captured media system (Guerrero 2014; Márquez-Ramírez and Guerrero 2017), where clientelist relations of exchange between traditional media elites and political actors inhibit independent and professional journalism.