The oft-repeated claim that organizers gathered roughly 300,000 signatures on a separation petition rests entirely on statements made by one individual: Mitch Sylvestre. There has been no independent verification, no public audit, and no transparent accounting of the signatures themselves. That uncertainty alone should encourage caution. Yet Mitch's number has dominated public discourse as an accepted fact rather than the unverified political assertion that it is.
There's very little credible evidence to suggest that Netanyahu isn't alive. But credibility is a rare commodity now that AI can convincingly clone real people across image, video, and audio formats, so it's getting tougher to conclusively dispel the rumors. This is what it looks like when nobody can trust their own eyes anymore.
Most days, an email lands in my inbox with the promise to amplify my growth-my newsletter subscribers, the reach of my podcasts, the number of client leads, etc. I've gotten used to random people pitching me on their services, and some of the messages expertly prey on my insecurities as a business owner ("you're leaving so much on the table," et al.). I never answer any of them, but I sometimes wonder which ones might actually be legit.
(Smith's team hasn't publicly commented on or responded to a request from NPR about how the video was made.) "You're managing so many intricate details," said San Francisco-based visual artist and researcher kyt janae, an expert on AI image creation. "You have each individual human being in the crowd. They're all moving independently and have unique features — their hair, their face, their hat, their phone, their shirt."