Michael Rapaport gets paid when people spread anti-Jewish hate on Instagram.
I can assure you, I don't get paid by anyone to make the logical and moral case for squelching Jew Hatred and supporting Israel.
The American Jewish actor has been extremely active in bringing awareness to the victims of the evil Gazan Government terrorist rape, slaughter and abduction on 7 October 2023. He posts on Instagram from Israel, sitting with the families of those victims still being held hostage in Gaza by the Gazan Government.
He is strongly pro-Israel.
He posted a short, 30-second video yesterday, saying that he gets paid every time he posts a video, and gave some details - maybe or maybe not within the bounds of the non-disclosure agreement he signed - about the details of how he gets paid for his posts. He is clearly encumbered morally by the deal his agent - I presume - struck for him with at least one social media platform and wanted to get it off his chest.
He gets paid every time he posts a video, no surprise there. He also gets paid when someone responds to his video with a supportive pro-Israel comment. He also gets paid every time someone responds with pro-Hamas comments or symbols like a Fakestinian flag or a watermelon emoji which apparently is another way of showing a Fakestinian flag to get past some kind of censoring filter.
(I will leave it to anthropologists focused on symbology to unpack that particular phenomenon, especially from an American context.)
I just went back to Instagram (8am ET, 5 January 2024) to copy the link to that post so you could hear him explain it himself, but amazingly it is gone.
So, in the midst of a horrific war for its survival - once again in 75 years - Israel faces myriad assaults in public opinion as well as on the physical threats on the ground. As public opinion in places like the United States has proven crucial in terms of the political will to provide military equipment to repel evil terrorist scum, the chatter sphere may well be important.
An American company is providing economic incentives for prominent people to increase hatred and discord, rather than economic incentives to encourage public comments more likely to lead to comity, calm understanding and eventual real justice-based peace.
People say they are worried about “Artificial Intelligence.” I am far more worried by Natural Stupidity.