No, the video of a man kicking a homeless person was not filmed in Argentina but in Brazil

Circulate in social networks a video showing a man hitting a person in a street with the following sentence: "I do not know who is the" lord of lawsuits. "If all goes well, someone will recognize him and he will also give a headache in a situation of helplessness.Not being condoled by a street situation turns you into sorete, but hitting the fallen you excludes from the human race "(sic). The tweet implies that the video was shot in Argentina and is accompanied by the hashtag #MacriNuncaMas. However, Reverso could prove that this is wrong: the images were taken in Brazil and are not current, but from 2016.

The misinformation was posted on Twitter by an Argentinian user who has a biography of the social network "K with Nestor, Super K with Cristina, Ultra K with Macri" and had nearly 4,000 retweets and more than 2,000 favorites.

This is not a video shot in Argentina

But this is not a news event in our country but it was shot in Brazil and has been in circulation for at least 3 years. After performing a viral video search with InVid, a web-based audiovisual content badysis tool developed by AFP, Reverso he could determine that the first publication with the video is 2016 and that it was manufactured by a Brazilian user.

The original message, which has more than 140,000 shares and nearly 5 million reproductions, was aired with a text in Portuguese that translates: "And these are the best." I was in the parked car, when I see two guys who start kicking a man in a street next to him without even doing anything to them. When I got out of the car to talk to them, they left. Unbelievable! After its viralization at this time, international media such as the New York Post (US) and Daily Star (UK) replicated the content stating that it's a video "filmed by a driver parked in a street of Brazil".

Another revealing fact of the falsity of the viral tweet is the word "forbidden" written in Portuguese ("proibido"), visible in a red sign at the top right of the video.

The same video was published in the last days by the account of Twitter London Streets with the phrase: "This often happens in the streets of London.TRA to help catch this man." Over there, the same users revealed their falsity and said that it was acting actually a video shot in Brazil.

What do the data say about poverty and poverty in the city?

According to 2018 data from the General Directorate of Statistics and Censuses of the Government of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires (latest available data), about 200,000 people are destitute in the district of Buenos Aires. Poverty – which only takes a basic food basket, as opposed to poverty, which also includes non-food basic goods and services, such as transport – rose from 3.7% to second half of 2015 to 6.6% in the second half of 2015. second half of 2018.

In addition, poverty has also increased in the territory of Buenos Aires. In the second half of 2018, it reached 21.2%, which would translate into about 650,000 people below the poverty line. In 2015, when Mauricio Macri left the seat of the government of Buenos Aires to become president, he badumed his presidency. Larreta, poverty in the city was 15.1% (about 460,000).

(*) This note It is part of Reverso, the collaborative journalistic project that brings together more than 100 media and technology companies to intensify the fight against misinformation during the campaign.