Pictures posted on the 28th of last month by Saudi state media’Arab News’ correcting’fake news’ related to Egypt’s first female captain Mar and El Seleda. The article (left photo) stating that “the first female captain was involved in the Suez Canal accident” is a fake, and the article (right) that said that “Mar and El Seleda, the first female captains in Egypt, are on the road to success”, is the original. Respectively marked. Arab news capture
The first female captain in Egypt, who had nothing to do with the accident, was accused of being the main culprit of the Suez Canal infarction due to’fake news’ spread on the Internet. The fake news was the result of manipulating the image of someone trying to ride on misogyny.
On the 23rd of last month (local time), immediately after the accident, an article on’Arab News’, a Saudi state-run newspaper, saying that the person involved in the grounding of the super-large container ship’Evergiven’ blocking the Suez Canal, was a woman captain It was from. The article explained that the accident occurred due to a mistake during the flight of Mar and El Seleda, 29, the first female captains of Egypt. On social media, sexist accusations were poured out, saying, “That’s why you shouldn’t leave a woman in the captain’s seat.”
The problem is that this article is fake news. At the time of the Evergiven aground, El Celeda was working on the Egyptian government ship’Ida 4′. It was near Alexandria, not the Suez Canal, and was on a mission to deliver supplies to a lighthouse in the Red Sea.
It was malicious distortion that caused the misunderstanding. On the 22nd of last month, Arab News released an article introducing El Celeda as the first female captain of Egypt on the road to success. Unfortunately, the next day, the Suez Canal was blocked by the Evergiven, whose bow was buried at the edge of the canal. Someone synthesized the image of the Arab News article on the 22nd to create a fake news that “Evergiven, operated by El Celeda, was stranded”, which quickly spread on social media. In response, Arab News also explained that the article on SNS on the 28th of last month was a fake.
However, it is difficult to correct the fake news that once spread. Elseleda is worried that her career will not be ruined. On the 3rd, he told the BBC on the 3rd, “I have suffered from sexual discrimination in the past, but this is my first time,” he said.
El Celeda is the first female student to enter the Arab Academy of Science, Technology and Maritime Transport (AASTMT), which nurtures navigators. At that time, he sent a letter to President Mubarak saying that it was unfair that only men could be admitted to AASTMT, demanding legal review, and eventually obtained qualifications for application. In 2015, after graduation, he also attended the ceremony to commemorate the opening of the Suez Canal expansion. At this time, he left a record of being the first female captain and the youngest captain to pass the Suez Canal.
The Suez Canal crunch, triggered by the Evergiven aground accident, ended in 11 days when the last remaining 61 of the 422 waiting ships passed through the canal on the 3rd.
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