Claim: According to a viral video on social media, Joe Biden has resigned from his position as America’s president.
Verdict: False! The video making the rounds on social media is AI-generated.
Full Text
A video circulating on social media, including Twitter, TikTok, Facebook, and WhatsApp, states in its caption that “American President resigned due to advanced age and need to take care of his family, having lost a son before. Vice President to be sworn in tomorrow. African will rather die there. This is amazing, shocking lesson and historical indeed. Best of Lord Pa Joe…”
Verification
The United States of America is heading for a crucial election in 2024, with incumbent president Joe Biden of the Democratic Party set to battle it out with Former President Donald J. Trump of the Republican Party.
Both camps have been trying to court the attention of their followers and solicit votes when the time comes. DUBAWA Ghana decided to verify a claim making the rounds on social media about the resignation of Joe Biden as president of America on the grounds of advanced health and the need to take care of his family.
DUBAWA Ghana visited the social media handles of Joe Biden to verify if the content being circulated was true but did not see anything related to the claim. His Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram pages did not announce such a decision.
We proceeded to the websites of Joe Biden (joebiden.com) and the White House (whitehouse.gov) to see if we could find anything about the video. The results showed nothing related to the viral content being shared on social media.
DUBAWA also monitored the major international websites, including CNN, and BBC, to see if the alleged report of resignation would find space on those platforms, but nothing like that was seen.
An InVID video analysis revealed that the viral video is an artificial intelligence (AI) generated video created by opiniochannels.com. The video was further broken down into keyframes for reverse image search. The result showed that the images used in the video were photos from Joe Biden’s Facebook page, and there was no original broadcast of the said resignation.
The video can be found on Clean TV, a Facebook page known for AI-generated content. The video also gives end credit to site opinionschannel.com as the source of the video. However, a search on the website revealed several other AI-generated videos. The channel is engaged in satirical/comedy content creation using AI tools with a #comedy written as part of the video’s captions. Similar AI-generated video content about Joe Biden, Donald Trump, and other personalities can be seen on their website.
However, the content was misconstrued by a section of the over 30,000 commentators on Facebook and Tiktok, where the video was posted, with many of them believing, sharing, and amplifying the video’s reach.
Conclusion
The viral video circulating on social media claiming to be of Joe Biden delivering his resignation speech is AI-generated. Hence, the content is FALSE!
