It's wrong the publication that says Victoria Donda consumes cocaine in Congress

Spread on Facebook a photo of a woman consuming cocaine next to a legend claiming she's Victoria Donda, Somos national deputy. However, this is false: although their identity is not known, the person who appears in the photo is not the national deputy of the city of Buenos Aires.

In addition, the image has been circulating since at least 2017 and is also spreading in Spain and Mexico as if it were a member of these countries, but has been verified and contradicted by specialized media (see here, here and here).

This misinformation has been shared 7 thousand times on Facebook, according to the information provided by the publication itself (see here). In the room, you see a woman sniffing cocaine in a cell phone that she has in her hand. Although she does not specify when and where the picture was taken, she only states that she is the national MP, even though the woman on the photo is physically different from Donda.

Although it was not possible to determine the identity of the woman in the picture, it is verified that the person who appears is not Donda. As you can see in the latest photographs – that the MP and the candidate for the renewal of their banking services have been published on their social networks – (see here and right here), it is not the same woman: between certain differences, we can observe that the facial features and hair color are different. The photo has also appeared on "memes" pages on the Web and in various countries since at least 2017 (see here, here).

This misinformation was previously verified by verification. In fact, this year had already circulated last May and April (see here and here). On both occasions, the national deputy of Somos, member of the interblock network for Argentina – of which Felipe Solá is the vice president – and former member of Libres del Sur, has confirmed that he is the only member of the network. was acting from a false publication.

In addition, he told the media: "You see, they have nothing to beat me, because they have to invent things like this where it's very obvious that it's not me." Not even joking I would wear a denim jumpsuit or glbades on my head. "

As noted, the image has also circulated in other countries. In Spain, it was stated that the woman on the picture was a member of the "Ciudadanos" party called "Ana Ronda" and, in other cases, a member of parliament from Podemos bearing the name "Vicki Donda". But the Spanish data verification sites, Newtral and Maldita, discovered that in both cases it was misinformation. Although they could not determine the identity of the woman, they proved that the person represented was not the one mentioned in the messages.

Finally, in Mexico, the image was identified with posts with a woman also known as "Vicki Donda", allegedly a member of parliament in Mexico by the Morena party. The verification site of Political Animal could verify that there is no legislator bearing this name in this country and that, as a result, the information was false.

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