Four media outlets from the 'Red de Medios Digitales' network have presented a report mapping a set of organizations, networks, communicators, and actors who are promoting and lobbying the narrative of an 'industry of false complaints.' This project is a collective work by Periódicas, Enfant Terrible, La Nota Tucumán, and Feminacida. The report, titled 'Review on the lobbying of false complaints: the last trench of the far right,' investigates the actors, organizations, networks, and communicators promoting this narrative to discredit gender-based violence complainants in Santa Fe, Córdoba, Tucumán, and Buenos Aires, and analyzes their political, judicial, and international ties. The project originated at the network's federal meeting held on August 22-23 in the Punilla Valley and took shape after three months of joint work. It aims to shed light on an ecosystem of operators that gained momentum in recent years (mainly 2024 and 2025) and is based on misinforming and stigmatizing discourses in each of the surveyed territories. This refers to actors who function as a network with a clear objective. The report mentions key narratives used to delegitimize the victim's account, including the 'bad victim,' based on gender stereotypes, which aims to discredit the person reporting sexual violence by exposing their private life, clothing, practices, or emotional state. The 'Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS),' which is presented as a non-existent psychological disorder without scientific backing, attributes a child's rejection of a parent to the manipulation of the other adult in charge. It also references the 'bad mother' figure, which shifts the focus to the adult responsible for care—usually the mother—implying that they 'contaminate' the child's account of the violence, thereby seeking to undermine the accusation's credibility. The investigation identified 44 actors, including organizations, foundations, legal professionals, and officials, who participate in producing and circulating discourses against what they call 'gender ideology.' 'This collective work is an invitation to learn about the mechanisms, strategies, and actions carried out in the last two years to install this rhetoric on the public agenda. Gender-based violence is not resolved only with an individual complaint, but it requires policies, institutions, and a society that guarantee real equality and protection for the victims,' the authors concluded. The report also highlights that this narrative has the public support of lawmakers such as Carolina Losada and Lilia Lemoine, as well as President Javier Milei himself. The report states that within this framework, 'the figure of the false complaint has become a strategic symbol: it allows positioning gender-based violence as a problem of excess, of misuse of rights, and not as a manifestation of structural inequalities. The change of narrative, such as universalizing isolated cases and the discursive inversion that the perpetrator is a victim of 'gender ideology,' reveals that what seemed like a dystopia is now a reality.'
