Baby Etchecopar criticized Javier Milei and Gordo Dan for their attacks on journalism: "If you kill me, you'll commit suicide."

Baby Etchecopar reacted this Friday to the latest critical and intimidating messages from Javier Milei and his supporters against journalists. The TV host spoke of "attempts at censorship" and addressed the President: "If you kill me, you'll commit suicide."

"Apparently, the President or Milei's government is bothered by some of us journalists and is demanding our heads and trying to censor us," Etchecopar began in a video he posted on social media.

"I refuse to believe it's true. I can't believe it's true. I can't believe that after so many years of democracy, nothing has been understood," the journalist added.

He then spoke about Daniel Parisini, better known as "Gordo Dan" on social media. He said: "Just the rumor, just the rumor, that a guy named Dan, who's a Twitter user, says 'Javier puts Baby in jail' or 'puts [Gabriel] Levinas in jail' or 'puts [Luis] Novaresio in jail'... The mere idea that in a democracy you can't have an opinion against it because they're looking for jail for journalism, is laughable, it's ridiculous."

He was referring at that time to a campaign driven by some Government trolls in X and supported by Fat Dan, to imprison journalists by decree.

Etchecopar concluded with a succinct remark. “The only thing I can say is a quote from a well-known writer, to the government of Javier Milei , for whom I voted: 'I'm a journalist, if you kill me, you're committing suicide.'”

Journalists are one of Milei's chosen targets for her attacks on social media. In her latest attack, Milei reignited controversy on Thursday by stating: "We don't hate journalists enough." She did so to refute a report that panelist Javier Brancatelli had said about the Minister of Human Capital, Sandra Pettovello , during her visit to Rome . However, throughout the week, she used the same tactic to attack print and broadcast journalists.

Fat Dan joined that wave, along with other troll users who are close to the Government and La Libertad Avanza.

"Javo, can you please put some journalist in jail by decree like Alfonsín did?" Parisini wrote to him.

The influencer was referring to a decree issued by the former Radical president, who in 1985 ordered the arrest of 12 people for alleged links to a "coup plot." Among the detainees were retired general Guillermo Suárez Mason, journalists Jorge Vago and Daniel Horacio Rodríguez, and political analyst Rosendo Fraga.

Gabriel Levinas, a former columnist for Jorge Lanata, responded to Fat Dan. “The man detained by decree was never a journalist; he was a political analyst linked to a coup d'état, the son of a military officer, Rosendo Fraga ,” Levinas wrote.

Parisini doubled down and responded with another request to the President: “Javo, can you put Gabriel Levinas in jail?”