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Did Israel post an AI video of Netanyahu to cover up his death? (No.)
Social media posts that claim a video shows Netanyahu with six fingers on one hand have gone viral since Friday.
The original source of the clip appears to be an eight-minute broadcast, published online by the Israeli government on Friday.
Video footage broadcast live on YouTube appears shorter than many of the videos spreading the extra-finger claim. A review of the broadcast footage by Newsweek shows Netanyahu with five fingers on his left hand.
A senior Israeli government official told Newsweek they had briefed Netanyahu face-to-face on Sunday.
Caption from article by Ellie Cook, Newsweek.
Supported by funding from Omidyar Network.
Transcript
Netanyahu is dead. I saw it online. Woah. Woah. That is quite the claim. He bad six fingers. Okay. But before we get into this, I wanna be very clear. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is not dead. Stop looking at your audience. Look at me. Face the truth. The truth is that the Israeli government did not post a video of Netanyahu with six fingers. But I saw it and it's proof that he's dead and they're pretending he's alive using AI generated video. If you look at the original video which has far more pixels, it's quite clear that he has five fingers throughout. This is his pinky and that part below is just his palm, like this part right here. Oh, well, yeah. I didn't do this. Who is this? Oh, this is iDave. He's my visual representation of AI that I use for videos. I love you. Is this the AI chatbot who's dating Zach Braff? No. That is also false. Zach Braff is not dating an AI chatbot. Whatever. What about that follow-up video of Netanyahu that they posted to prove that he's alive? Yeah. He jokes that he's dying for coffee and asked if he should count his fingers. Right. But it looks pretty fake to me. I mean, who holds a coffee cup like that? Literally me. Also, Reuters confirmed that the video is real and matched it to images of the cafe. The text on screen is consistent throughout, which AI typically has trouble with. Hey. It's true. There was also eyewitnesses everywhere, and it was even posted to the cafe's social media account. Yeah. Well, did you see that Good said it was AI? Grok also questioned if the holocaust happened. Why are you defending Netanyahu? I'm not defending Netanyahu at all. This is just the truth. Rank it's proof that everyone is susceptible to conspiracy theories, especially when it's connected to emotionally charged events or political figures. Oh, don't put me in that category. I'm not like the election deniers who think the twenty twenty election was stolen. You're right. Right. It was not stolen. But for example, there's also no credible evidence that the attempted assassination on Trump was staged. Of course it was. He planned it. There's mountains of evidence on Reddit and threads. What if I keep saying it until it's true? You might be able to trick some AI bots, but there's still no evidence that that's true. Oh, yeah? Well, watch this loop.
