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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(137,354 posts)
Thu Jan 9, 2025, 04:15 PM Jan 2025

Fake Video Shared of Nancy Pelosi Falling While Using Walker on House Floor

A fake video purportedly showing former U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi repeatedly falling while using a walker on the House floor circulated widely online in early 2025.

A reverse-image search for the first frame of the clip showed the most popular share (archived) on the il Donaldo Trumpo (@PapiTrumpo) X account. The user posted the video on Jan. 6, 2025, captioning it with the words, "STOP IT!" The clip received over 5 million views. The post displayed a barely visible watermark in the lower-right corner indicating the same user created the video.




One user responded under the clip, "Did this really happen?" That reply received more than 78,000 views. Other users also asked if the video was real. Our reverse-image search located numerous shares of the clip on Facebook, Threads, TikTok, X and YouTube.

However, the truth was the il Donaldo Trumpo (@PapiTrumpo) X user created the video of Pelosi falling with an artificial-intelligence (AI) tool. A good number of users correctly noted this fact in replies under the posts sharing the clip. After all, a close watch of the video showed bodies, faces, arms, legs, wood furniture and other items bending and twisting in unnatural ways.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/nancy-pelosi-walker-falling-video/
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Fake Video Shared of Nancy Pelosi Falling While Using Walker on House Floor (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jan 2025 OP
Have you seen the Will Smith spaghetti video? Unladen Swallow Jan 2025 #1
I've seen videos suggesting Donald F Trump is president-elect. Sparkly Jan 2025 #3
MAGA humor gets me every time. These guys sure are funny. Midnight Writer Jan 2025 #2
Especially one canetoad Jan 2025 #4
 

Unladen Swallow

(491 posts)
1. Have you seen the Will Smith spaghetti video?
Thu Jan 9, 2025, 04:25 PM
Jan 2025

I don't know how to post or I'd post it here. On the left is an AI video of Will Smith eating spaghetti from one year ago. It looks messed up and almost cartoon-like, easy to tell its fake. On the right is also a video of Will Smith eating spaghetti, made with AI very recently. Except for a few small errors in a handful of frames, its impossible to tell the video isn't real.

The falling from the walker video is obviously fake.

But it won't be long before we can't tell fact from fiction, in video, audio, or photography, ever again.

Frightening.

Sparkly

(24,938 posts)
3. I've seen videos suggesting Donald F Trump is president-elect.
Fri Jan 10, 2025, 12:16 AM
Jan 2025

Hilarious!! No way the voters of America could be that stupid, especially not twice....
/s

Midnight Writer

(25,733 posts)
2. MAGA humor gets me every time. These guys sure are funny.
Thu Jan 9, 2025, 08:31 PM
Jan 2025

Nothing funnier than an old person on a walker falling and flailing around. I bet this gets howls of laughter at the Heritage Foundation.

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