THE hoaxes linked to DANA of Valenciawhich caused a tragedy in several towns in the region on October 29, have been multiplying on social networks since the very day of the storm. Some Internet users engage in slander and spreading false news which, unfortunately, ends up affecting a very large number of people.
False and self-serving information which, in certain cases, highlight volunteers, as well as the UME itself and even NGOs. David Moreno, Vox deputy of Castilla La-Mancha, He denied seeing the Red Cross volunteers “in Letur, Mira, Aldaia, Silla or Paiporta”, although they visited them -according to him-.
A completely false assertion that we deny with the images that you can see in the main video of this news, where the Red Cross appears working in the areas most affected by DANA since the first day of the disaster. In fact, and as indicated Íñigo Vila, emergency director of the Red Cross, plans to go beyond the emergency: “We’re going to be working on this for many years,” he said.
The NGO is not the only one to be the target of hoaxes and insults, but also the Armed Forces. A few days ago we could see how this was going viral on social media the video of a fake soldier stating that the toll was not going to “fall below 100,000 deaths”. A truly scandalous figure which attempts to cast doubt on the official figures put forward by the State.
Another hoax that has spread like wildfire is audio of a supposed EMU sergeant crying. This indicated that they had taken “at least 200 children” dead from the parking lot of the Bonaire shopping center, in Aldaia and affected by the floods, and that they had been forced to do it “from the rear”. Although the person saying this is not a military man and has not been in his life. They also spread other hoaxes about this shopping center, ensuring that It had become a cemetery and there were “victims of kicks”. All the information that turned out to be lies.
Something similar happens with the graffiti that we see on social networks. These are paintings that, for the most part, reflect the face of Pedro Sánchez accompanied by a disqualifying phrase. However, and as we have seen, despite the fact that they reach us from everywhere, The truth is that they don’t exist. Nobody painted them. These are montages made after the fact with a lot of intention.
Also Climate change denial messages have proliferatedsome of them claiming that environmental disasters, like DANA, “can be amplified and manipulated by waves.” Totally surreal information, dismantled by experts and from which some benefit, but not the journalists who discover it.
This same thing happened to Jokin Castellón, forced to deny in Conspiranoicos – very bluntly – hoaxes that linked him to Soros. “They don’t pay, and I don’t pay them, and I don’t have shares… The tweet confirms the ridiculousness of Rocafort,” he said on his show, confirming that this information was false. crude lies to attack him.
Andalusia has also been the subject of these hoaxes. It spread through social networks which They were going to make up classes this weekendtotally false information that the Andalusian government had to deny.
