Valencia: ground zero for hoaxes and lies

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On Saturday, 130,000 people filled Valencia with mud and indignation against the poor management of the catastrophe and demanded the resignation of President Carlos Mazón. They demand that he leave office after several days in which news about his lies, about the alarm that came late, about the hours he was unreachable on Tuesday, October 29, in the hours in which there were already thousands of people with mud up to their waists.

Almost two weeks of exchanges of accusations that do not stop happening. In recent days, Mazón has charged against the Government and now accuses Teresa Ribera, while the Popular Party closes ranks with Mazón. Two weeks also of hoaxes and misinformation, of influencers and pseudo-journalists who have traveled to Valencia to fill truthful information with mud, get likes and monetize content, of far-right groups and Nazis who continue to spread mud in the affected areas and go out to the street in Ferraz.

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We talk about all this in our gathering. “To the right and left” in which we analyze this political war and the campaign of hoaxes around DANA in Valencia and other current issues. with journalists Youssef M. Ouledjournalist and researcher on racism, coordinator of Algo Race and head of the anti-discrimination area at the NGO Rights International Spain; Noelia Adánezpolitical scientist, playwright, and opinion chief of the newspaper Público y Rodrigo Terrasa, journalist in the newspaper El Mundo and its magazine PAPEL, and author of ‘The City of Euphoria’ and ‘The Abyss of Oblivion’. And we tell where hoaxes and misinformation come from and how to protect yourself from them with Iago Moreno, sociologist specializing in digital culture and politics.