No, it's not Victoria Donda, the woman who consumes cocaine on a viral photo.

Circulate in

Facebook

a photo of a woman who consumes cocaine next to a legend that she says to be

Victoria Donda,

National deputy of Somos. 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 runs from at least 2017 and has also been broadcast in

Spain

and in

Mexico

as if he were a member of these countries, but this has been verified and denied by specialized means.

This misinformation has been shared 7 thousand times on Facebook, according to the information provided by the publication itself. 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 bank have published on their social networks – it is not the same woman: among some differences, you can see that the traits of the face and the color of the hair are different. The photo has also appeared on "memes" pages on the Web and in various countries since at least 2017.

This misinformation was previously verified by verification. In fact, this year had already circulated in May and last April. On both occasions, the national deputy of Somos, member of the network Interbloque for Argentina, chaired by the deputy

Felipe Solá

– and a former member of Libres del Sur, confirmed that it was a false publication. In addition, he was of opinion in front of this medium: "You can see that they have nothing to beat me because they have to invent things like this where it is very obvious that this it's not me. "

As noted, the image has also circulated in other countries. In Spain, it was stated that the woman in the photo was a member of the "Ciudadanos" party called "Ana Ronda" and in other cases a member of parliament from Podemos named "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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By Imanol Subiela Salvo

Edition: Laura Zommer, Cecilia Becaría