When we count hoaxes as a spontaneous phenomenon, we excuse the people who spread them. Behind each lie there is a liar, and behind each retweet there is a moral misery with a name, surname and ID that does not feel responsible for the damage it causes. It may be difficult to go back to the origin of a hoax (although there are patient Theseos who follow the thread until they find the beginning), but it is easy to find the propagating agents.
It will be difficult to know who was the wretch who mounted a fake video in which it seemed that the comedian David Broncano was laughing in The resistance of the girl run over in a school in Madrid, but it is easy to see that without the defamatory enthusiasm of Hermann Tersch or Juan Carlos Girauta it would have had far fewer spectators, so it is fair to name them, so that it does not seem that the diffusion was a mechanical phenomenon, rather, it responded to the will of adults who own themselves.
All of us who have been victims of some hoax know that it is useless to fight against them. No matter how they are denied and their falsehood is proven, they will persist in the memory of those predisposed to believe them. Aren’t Ricky Martin still sometimes with the jam story? But it is one thing to resign oneself to the downpour and another to accept it as if behind the hoax there was no conscious and very human evil.
Every time an upright citizen, exemplary father and friend of his friends, spreads a hoax about someone, he makes the world a meaner place. Since the paths of self-exculpation are inscrutable, you can continue to believe yourself to be good and just. Even if he regrets it later, he will say that he was just going with the flow, like the jury that convicted Dolores Vázquez. From time to time someone should remind them that no one forced them, that it was they, free and conscious, who spat on others.
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