Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appeared in multiple videos on his official X account this week, flanked by top military brass and laughing alongside US Ambassador Mike Huckabee, as online rumours swirled that he had been killed or gravely wounded in an Iranian missile strike near his Jerusalem office.
The clips, posted between Sunday and Tuesday amid the ferocious Israel-Iran war, directly mocked the death hoaxes gaining traction on social media, with Netanyahu quipping lines like 'I'm dead for coffee' while raising his hands to count fingers. Yet Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok threw petrol on the fire by first branding one key video as fake before abruptly reversing course.
