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Netanyahu Debunks Death Rumours with New Video After Deepfake Controversy

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu posts a fresh video amid online death rumours and AI deepfake allegations, highlighting the challenges of digital media. (Credit: AFP News)

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been forced into an unprecedented digital counter-offensive to prove he is alive after Elon Musk's AI chatbot, Grok, flagged a video of him as a '100% deepfake'.

The saga began on 15 March 2026, when a casually filmed clip of the Premier sipping coffee at 'The Sataf' café in the Jerusalem Hills went viral. Intended to mock Iranian state media reports of his assassination, the video instead triggered a global 'truth crisis' when AI analysis suggested the coffee level was static and lip-syncing was unnatural.

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