Maybe social media is the explanation for the emergence and unfold of the phenomenon of saying the dying of well-known individuals earlier than they die. It’s true that rumors are historical, and should have originated from human publicity, however the unfold of the rumor was restricted, and social media has a singular, distinctive skill to create the rumor, or “pretend information.” a truth that’s broadly distributed, and the extra essential it turns into The individual or entity that’s focused by pretend information, the pace and scope of its unfold will multiply many instances.
Asserting the dying of well-known individuals earlier than their very own dying, typically years, will not be the one “pretend information” that spreads like wildfire, as they are saying, however it’s actually one among them, and there are examples of this greater than could be counted.
The Syrian novelist Hanna Mina died in 2018, however information of his dying was circulated years earlier than, and a number of other instances, and I do not forget that I, personally, was one of many victims of the rumor lure, when which I described in one among my articles as a late author, if it wasn’t for a Palestinian buddy who warned me, after studying The article says that the information will not be true.
The Iraqi poet Muzaffar al-Nawab died within the 12 months 1922, however earlier than that, he was the sufferer of rumors on social media about his dying, years earlier than God took his life, and a number of other instances, perhaps not simply as soon as let’s not be shocked in the future we learn somebody mentioning the poet, that he learn the information of his dying a number of instances earlier than He left, identical to the artist Adel Imam stated, who was additionally usually reporting on his dying whereas he’s nonetheless alive as we speak.
The identical factor occurred with the Colombian novelist Gabriel García Márquez, who died in 2014 on the age of eighty-seven, after passing related rumors about his dying, to the extent that the top of the Iberoamerica Belief stated at Márquez that day, angrily: “Do not deceive us with rumors about him… please.”
If we go away the world of literature and enter the world of politics, we are able to point out the names of former US President Ronald Reagan and former British Queen Elizabeth II, who died whereas they had been alive solely revealed on social media, but in addition together with some conventional media, together with radio.
The most recent individual to be included within the dying rumors was the American thinker Noam Chomsky, whose false information of his dying turned the discuss of the city in latest days. , and as a result of large unfold of the information, the subject remained a subject. of widespread controversy on Arab social media, and eulogies had been written about Chomsky. One in every of them wrote, angrily, saying: “Chomsky deserves the reward that’s written about him, however have those that wrote him learn even one guide by the person?” “
We’ll finish with a quote from Chomsky that claims: “Nobody pours the reality into your thoughts, you need to discover it your self.”
