From Forbes: Have you seen that video of LeBron James clearly traveling—taking six steps without dribbling the basketball—before a slam dunk? The video has been viewed over 2.7 million times. But it’s completely fake.
“That time LeBron didn’t travel,” the Twitter account that first shared the video tweeted sarcastically on March 22.
But from there, the video spread through retweets that allow people on Twitter to create their own captions, helping the video get seen by almost 3 million people in recent days.
NBC News reporter Ben Collins tweeted on Monday that it was the “first deepfake that actually got me” and it really does look real. Deepfakes are videos that more typically allow people to make videos that show celebrities saying things they didn’t actually say.
It’s not immediately clear how the fake video was created, but there are a number of tools available online that allows for the altering of videos. It’s also possible to simply delete frames from video using basic editing software like iMovie, though it doesn’t look like that’s what happened here.
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