2023-12-31 08:18:21
The circuit always works more or less the same. It works like this: a British influencer, using a statement or a wish from president Javier Milei, says that Chelsea is interested in six clubs in Argentina, now that the implementation of the presidential DNU enables, among many other issues, the landing of sports corporations in Argentine football. He lists the list of the alleged cases: Boca, Racing, Estudiantes, Newell’s, Lanús and Banfield, but he immediately clarifies that there was no conversation or approach to those institutions. Which is something that is being studied.
The British influencer is Felix Johnston, a young journalist who publishes information regarding Chelsea, comments on their matches, has 158 thousand followers on X (ex Twitter) and seven thousand on YouTube.
Here in Argentina we have it clear, although these days it is worth clarifying it: the DNU that came into force last Friday tries to allow the entry of the SAD despite the fact that the AFA statute prohibits it and that many clubs already do so. explicitly stated in their internal regulations.
But that is not at issue in this text. Let’s go back to the other thing.
Felix’s comment generates the publication of a cable from Archyde.com, the same agency that Minister Patricia Bullrich had mentioned as an example – with a total lie regarding the number of people who work there – to undermine the Télam agency that this government wants to privatize. or close. The cable, as always happens, is the tip of the ball: from its publication, the text is replicated ad infinitum on small, medium and large sites. The first to upload the “news” – which is false or, at best, not yet news – is a Mexican site. The second, OneFootball. Then everything is amplified: even Infobae, the most read site in Argentina, copies, pastes and publishes it. The sports site profile.com –442– also does it. In the post-truth era, the fidelity of the information no longer matters, not even a certain verisimilitude, but clicks. Rain of clicks. Let the public click, then we see if the content has a handle.
The circuit becomes more complex due to its massiveness and reaches paroxysm when Minister Bullrich, once once more, gives as an example of the change in the national paradigm the interest of “Chel-se-a” in six Argentine teams. She says it on air on her favorite channel, LN +, and laments that the economic group that owns Chelsea is not interested in Independiente, the club of which she is a fan.
Johnston’s post, at that point, had already become an alleged truth. The Argentine clubs denied it. They responded with statutes. They even mocked the supposed interest, which will soon collapse under its own weight. When it happens, it won’t matter anymore: the damage will be done.
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