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Comment by aaron695

Because of prediction markets like https://polymarket.com/event/is-the-room-temp-superconductor... there is a reason to put in an effort to fake this.

This is very well done if faked (dated up the top left), so it would be another first if it was a real fake. That would also be exciting.

The strange things are...

No one else can find it yet.

It's not a phone video off a monitor, it's an actual video, time stamped and watermarked. Poster says Twitter is lowing the quality. It's also a strange aspect ratio and position for lab video (that watermarks a date).

It's watermarked with a unknown watermark.

Twitter account is brand new.

parent aaron695 3 years ago

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