Sat, Nov 4
When the Israel-Palestine conflict began, I used many public sources as the basis for my articles. However, I discovered that amid all of this, there are those who are not loyal to their audience and use their large following to confuse public opinion.
There is a lot of news that isn't true. Of course, the conflict is real, and atrocities are happening on the ground from both sides. After all, it's war, and war often carries a mix of destruction and inhumanity with it. But the media, or rather, influencers, are using all forms of engagement possible and taking advantage of the conflict to muddle or even publish false news just to benefit themselves.
Example of Misinformation: Link
This is a growing trend, with influencers like Jackson Hinklle being one of the most questionable in terms of the accuracy of facts.
He uses his large audience as the fuel for his posts and often shares a lot of news without reliable sources, frequently sharing fake news on his X account. It's easy to tell when the news is fake because it doesn't provide any form of informational support, meaning it lacks a credible source for verification.
Today, when analyzing one of his posts, I came to the conclusion that Jackson Hinklle is a charlatan and an influencer who should not be taken seriously. He is not sincere with his audience, and one of these days, his account will be banned from the X platform. What's incredible is the amount of engagement he gets!
This engagement often makes me realize how complicated and extremely manipulable the human species is. There is information that Jackson shares that is a clear lie, and his audience simply doesn't question it, and this form of acceptance is worrisome.
He is not only creating chaos on the X platform but is also profiting from the suffering of others because, in the end, it's these posts that are remunerated by the subsidized program of the platform, earning thousands of dollars. He is literally sucking the public to achieve his despicable and inhumane goals, not respecting the pain of those on the ground; in fact, he uses it as a source for his audience.
Reuters News Confirming UAE's Condemnation of Israel and Discrediting Jackson Hinklle's Post: Link
It's dangerous when influencers like Jackson Hinklle share misleading information and possible fake news because, instead of promoting peace and reconciliation, he creates widespread disorder, and it's easy to see that he incites people to hatred.
In many posts, he simply looks at one side of the conflict and even shows images of alleged victims of bombings in Palestine, dismembered and in horrendous positions, to create a negative impact on Israel.
I don't support any side of the conflict because it's the innocent civilians who suffer the most here, many of them women, the elderly, and children. But we must always convey what is true, not create problems for the public and incite hatred towards one group or another.
I followed the war in my country to some extent (I was a child, and I heard the older people narrate the stories), and I know that in a conflict, many bad things happen. Depending on what people have been taught about the enemy, many ugly things take place on the ground. But there are also people on the ground who are human and strive for others to be treated the way they would like to be treated.
The Israel-Palestine conflict is a complex issue, and to understand it, it could take days of discussion because the Israeli and Palestinian people are guided by the same principles: humanism, understanding, love, the practice of religious acts, compassion, and more. However, the government has a different idea.
It is this idea of dominance over the other that creates wars and other forms of conflict among peoples. I believe that in Israel, there are millions of people who are against the aggression towards Palestine, just as I believe that in Palestine, there are thousands of people who want nothing to do with Hamas.
Therefore, we must report the facts as they are and not use influence to confuse public opinion and make money from it. Jackson Hinklle is a predator of media and public opinion on the Israel-Palestine conflict.
He cannot use his large number of followers as a weapon for disinformation and fake news to confuse the world. We must always exercise caution when following news using public sources. I always appeal to this because people have the right to know when they are being deceived and should use their heads to think for themselves.
Stay well online and always question and draw conclusions after verifying news from multiple sources. Today, Hinklle may be the misinformer, but tomorrow, another one will emerge. He gets some things right, so never trust blindly; instead, verify.