A influencer Upload a video in one of the areas affected by the passage of DANA in the province of Valencia. Like others, he has added money from his followers to help those affected by the storm, but as he himself explains, you have to choose which towns what you buy with that money goes to. Leave the decision in the hands of TikTok: the people with the most likes in the comments receive the help. “By comments, names are put and people vote.” This is Ángel Gaitán, a regular contributor to Iker Jiménez’s ‘Horizonte’ program.
Criticism has not taken long to arise regarding the video, especially from other users on social networks who, in addition, reject its “contempt” for the work of NGOs that operate in the area to try to lend a hand to the hundreds of families who have left without a home and who try day after day to clean the mud and mud that still floods the streets of many towns in the region. “Pure pornography of tragedy.” “It is difficult to describe how indecent what Ángel Gaitán is doing is,” can be read on X, formerly Twitter.
“Please, in this video, nobody put anything in comments if it is not affected,” he says in the video. “We have to decide on two towns for the convoy of about twenty vans,” he continues, before mentioning towns like Catarroja or Alfafar. “By comments, names are put and people vote.” “The two towns that I like the most will be the ones we go to,” he explains.
In the comments, people put names of towns like Aldaia, Albal or Catarroja: “Please, they are abandoned.” Iker Jiménez also shares videos with the content creator’s trucks on his X account.
Gaitán, in addition, during these days had launched reproaches against the Government and Pedro Sánchez, and had spread the hoax repeated by the extreme right regarding some alleged statements by the president, who offered the collaboration of the central Executive on Saturday, November 2. “If more resources are needed, let the Generalitat ask for them,” Sanchez said.at a press conference. “I’m a badass, I already recognized it in a program the other day, but one of those who wants to help people and those who love their country,” said Iker Jiménez’s collaborator, in his video dedicated to the president. “I don’t like politics but you’re missing seven towns,” he continued. “You’re doing terrible.”
The program Gaitán was referring to was Horizonte, in which he brought out a Spanish flag and used his intervention to appropriate the term “facha,” which he proudly assured was “something similar” to what he “ “I thought it was normal.”
Hoaxes and frivolity
But the comments are not limited to just the influencer. In recent days, the networks have been critical of the behavior of some content creators who either accuse them of trivializing the tragic situation or of promoting misinformation.
An example is the case of streamer The Grefg, with more than 12 million followers on the Twitch platform and who promulgated the Bonaire shopping center parking hoax. “Yesterday a friend who is from the civil guard was one of the 12 divers who went down to the Bonaire parking lot,” he read during a live broadcast, in which he went so far as to say, through a message, that there were up to a thousand people dead. After inspecting it, the Police have finally confirmed that there are no victims inside the building and that, in effect, “a hoax was spread.”
The same with other influencers like Ana Moya, who while dozens of towns woke up with the streets completely flooded and total destruction, she uploaded a video of her chalet. And now, in addition, content creators who promote false ideas related to the work of organizations such as the Red Cross are joining in.
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