Is the story of a bus passenger true, which was the story of which was a woman?

A meme is popular on the network, whose hero photographed himself before landing on the bus, which was ruled by a woman, and ten minutes later, when the bus got into an accident. We checked the reliability of this story.

A collage of two selfies of a person who got into an accident is accompanied by a signature: “This is a man from Africa. He published his photograph, expressing pride in the fact that for the first time he lands on the bus that the woman ruled. After 10 min. He posted his photo again. ” In the first picture, a smiling passenger stands against the background of the vehicle, on the second - all is covered with dust, and in the background, an inverted bus is visible. This meme, along with a variety of mizogin comments, is posted by users of social networks ("VKontakte" Facebook*, Pinterest, X, Telegram) And Platform blog. The picture is also popular on information resources, entertainment And humorous Portals with collections of jokes. 

“Verified” failed to detect the source of photographs, however, the reverse search in the image leads to articles published in British tabloids Daily Mail And The Mirror In November 2018. Their authors talked about the selfie virals and indicated that the accident in which the man fell occurred in Mozambique.

Judging by Mozambik's reports Media and informational Portals, November 18, 2018, Nagi Investments Flight bus, which was traveling from Keliman to Beiru, had an accident in the village of Gorongos. Three people died in an accident, another 37 were injured. In the Mozambic sources, viral selfies of one of the passengers are not mentioned, however, judging by the pictures attached to the notes, we are really talking about the same accident.

None of the news articles we found in the British or Mosambic media said that there was a woman while driving the bus. On the contrary, the authors clarify that the vehicle was controlled by a 48-year-old amiss of the Moussa, and use a pronoun in a male gender to his address. It was not possible to find this person or his photo on the network, however, for example, there is a lot on Facebook users From mosambic with such name - And all of them men.

It was “verified” who first provided viral pictures with a story about a woman-driver who had an accident after 10 minutes. driving (by the way, In fact From the point of departure of that bus to the place of accidents - more than 400 km). Reddit users in 2019 complainedthat the sexists are trying to use the incident in mosambic to create and spread mizogin fakes. However, the first such posts appeared Back in 2018, and the next year with a similar signature about a woman while driving a photo dispersed along Arabian -speaking And Russian -speaking network segments.

Thus, there is no evidence that a woman was an accident of a bus from viral photos. This information is not in news notes on an accident, it appeared only after some time on the blog-platforms and in social networks.

*Russian authorities They think Meta Platforms Inc., which owns the social network Facebook, an extremist organization, its activities in Russia are prohibited.

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