2024-08-16 18:08:00
After the complainant files a complaint Fabiola Yanez against former president Alberto Fernandez The digital world sparks heated discussions over assault and psychological harassment Gender-based violence in Argentina and inspire more women to learn how to report these incidents. The scandal sparked strong negative perceptions that affected all political sectors.
Although Argentinian feminism has made the issue of gender-based violence visible in all media in recent years, more recently Charges against former president result in significant increasepromoted the establishment of the Ministry of Women at that time and claimed that it would “End the Patriarchy” After the Voluntary Termination of Pregnancy Act (IVE) was enacted.
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Dictators don’t like this
The practice of professional and critical journalism is a fundamental pillar of democracy. That’s why it bothers those who think they have the truth.
Take the digital conversation in Argentina last year, for example, which saw an increase in interest in the topic. Between September 2023 and July 2024, the debate on gender-based violence will 133% increase. Yanez’s complaints, however, multiplied that number, and between July and August, Soared 344%according to a report monitoring numbers.
Analysis through social networks From “very bad” to “terrible”classified by consulting firms based on user ratings.
In this sense, more than 79% of geolocation users in Argentina mention this issue in the following terms: negative emotionsAmong them, “complaints” is the most commonly used term, followed by “corruption”, while positive ones are related to issues of “justice”, “freedom” and “rights”.
Searches reporting gender-based violence are increasing, especially in deprived areas
Online searches following complaints against Alberto Fernandez also showed alarming changes. For the sake of comparison, it is important to highlight that over the past twelve months, the most interesting topics in Google queries for Argentines pointed to Legislation on gender-based violence.
Secondly, investigations emerged physical and psychological attacks by gender, followed by online questions about How to make a complaint Relevant to the question.
However, if you follow the internet searches in recent weeks, according to Fabiola Yáñez’s complaint, regarding The former president surged 1,350%query at the same time Complaints about gender-based violence suddenly increased by 550%.
When analyzing such searches for each province, it is worth noting that Areas with lower socioeconomic levels They are the ones who have studied the subject the most. Catamarca, Jujuy, La Rioja and Salta have the highest percentage of queries on Google.
In this sense, all NOA provinces account for just over 30% of national-level gender-based violence interests, while NEA regions reach just over 20%. Overall, northern Argentina accounts for half of the internet queries on this question, while Cuyo accounts for just over 19%, Patagonia just under 18% and the center of the country almost 13%.
“Our hypothesis is that the need for gender issues is much greater in provinces with higher levels of poverty and poverty. Institutional tools to target gender-based violence are much less available. Then there may be other creeds and other reasons, but I am no longer involved in them,” the journalist and digital analyst told PERFIL. Diego Cobalanreport author Monitor the numbers.
The political impact of the complaints against Alberto Fernandez
On the topic of conversations about gender-based violence on social networks, after Fernandez was accused of serious injury, abuse of power and threatening Yáñez. The judicial aspect accounted for a little more than a third of the conversation, but the political aspect also played a large part.
In Argentinian online publications, judicial issues accounted for 32.1% of the analyzed topics, and political issues accounted for 26%. Corruption issues ranked third, with just over 12%, while government management issues ranked below 10%.
It should be noted that, in addition to the judicial process of the open case against Alberto Fernandez, online discussions among Argentines on gender-based violence include the following: strong political componentbecause these events occurred during his tenure as president of the country.
However, Cobalan assured that preliminary reports indicate that the case affects not only Peronism but also other political parties. “By discussing gender-based violence, Critical speech about politics in general is on the rise again. Everyone likes it more or less,” he explains.
According to the first data, party criticism increased by 5% from July to August, although rejection rates generally fell by 8 percentage points between June and July. “Rejection rates increased by 6% for Peronism, 2% for liberals, 6% for radicals, 10% for Macriism and the Left, but not filtered through gender issues,” he noted and emphasized , these are preliminary data from 2017.
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about Famous “Trolls” on Social Networks And its possible impact on the issue of gender-based violence surrounding Alberto Fernández, Corbalán noted: “We identified 276,000 perpetrators, analyzed and evaluated them. The proportion of trolls is very low”. However, he called to question why other users take such accounts seriously and consider the content they post to be valid.
Likewise, he explains how they avoid appearing in reports: “We try to bring together people who post on social networks and they Be willing to reveal your true identity Even its location. “This greatly reduces the troll’s presidency.”
Another journalist, Luciana Rubinska, took center stage: “I have nothing to do with Alberto Fernández.”
In this sense, when asked about questions on the Internet Tamara Pettinatoafter a video of him with Alberto Fernandez at the Palazzo Rosa was leaked, Cobalan mentioned: “It was like a subtitle for the complaint. We saw it trending very high and it caught our attention, but Something beyond Fernandez’s alleged violence is being produced”.
He added: “This has caused a lot of outrage, not just because of gender-based violence; All the fun in Olivoswhich is why there are many inferences in this case. Sometimes you know people are interested in one thing, but it turns out that interest ends up going somewhere else.
This aspect is related to The political side of the Alberto Fernandez scandalEspecially since there are contentious meetings with different people entering the presidential palace and Rose Palace every day, not necessarily for political purposes, while the country is in quarantine due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Report on the impact of gender-based violence in the digital world
The report is completed using the following technologies: social media listeningwhich includes compiling information from various social networks and filtering it by desired topics. For this case, the following websites were analyzed: X (extwitter), Facebook, TikTok, Youtube, Instagram, Threads, Reddit and Google.
The corpus consists of the following parts 305,900 geotargeted mentions There are 276,000 authors in Argentina’s digital world. The time period analyzed is September 2023 to August 2024.
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