After the brutal repression on Wednesday in the Plaza de los dos Congresos, while the Base Law was being discussed in the Senate, the security forces detained 33 people. Of those 33, 17 were released, but 16 remain deprived of their liberty. In that context, the journalist of TN Jonatan Viale showed data the faces and names of two people who had mobilized with a union as if they were part of those arrested. However, that was false.
An aggravating factor of fake news of Viale was that He spread it while the Minister of Security, Patricia Bullrich, was on the floor of your program. However, Bullrich did not contradict the news from the program’s host “Do you see her?”.
After 9pm on Thursday, Viale affirmed that Matías Vargas, leader of the United Maritime Workers Union (SOMU), and Guillermo Domínguez, a worker affiliated with the union, were detained, a fact that is false: they were in the mobilization, but they were not detained, nor did they receive any notification. “These stay, huh. Everyone inside. They don’t come out,” said Viale on his program, while the Minister of National Security looked at him attentively.
As far as he could know The uncoveringthe union has already been notified of the case file and is analyzing the steps to follow.
Another fake news that Viale had given just before had to do with the alleged arrest of Fernando Alderete, son of the leader of the Classist and Combative Current (CCC) Juan Carlos Alderete. That arrest did not exist either. What’s more, Fernando Alderete was not at the mobilization last Wednesday. In a statement, Juan Carlos Alderete expressed: “This news is false, my son did not participate in the march, nor is he detained. The most alarming thing about this lie is that he stated on air that this was official information with the minister of the area present. After the announcements from the Ministry of Security, I can only think that it is a maneuver to prosecute the CCC and me as leader of that organization.”
“I demand a public apology from the self-proclaimed journalist Jonatan Vialeof the production of the program and the signal,” continued the CCC leader, and added: “This is not the first time that Jonatan Viale defames us, constructing false news about the Classist and Combative Current, the organization to which I belong. , and about me.”
