Video of Vlogger Claiming a Video Camera Was Surgically Placed Into His Forearm Is Fabricated
The Claim
An American vlogger claims that he had a video camera surgically implanted into his forearm in a video clip.
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Social media accounts have recently shared a video clip of American vlogger Jake Paul claiming that he had a video camera surgically put into his forearm, which had cost him $300,000.
Misbar’s Analysis
Misbar’s team investigated the claim and found it fake. The video clip is fabricated; it was edited using a technique called deepfake.
YouTuber Jake Paul also shared in March 2019 a clip of the video that has gone viral on Instagram, pointing out that the video manipulation was made by a digital media artist called Nicholas King, who goes by the name nickels.
In the YouTube video viewed by millions, Jake Paul also tagged Nicholas King’s account “nickels.”
Deepfakes, or deepfake videos refer to a “manipulated video or other digital representation produced by sophisticated machine-learning techniques that yield seemingly realistic, but fabricated, images and sounds.”
Translated by Ahmed N. A. Almassri
