Is Joe Biden Dead, Replaced by 10 Different Deepfake Body Doubles? An Investigation

A viral video speculating that Joe Biden is either dead, multiple people, a deepfake, or some combination of all of those has been viewed more than a million times on Twitter.

The original post is from the Twitter account for the band Five Times August, led by Dallas-area musician Bradley James Skistimas. The account has 91,000 followers. He posted two pictures of Biden from two different occasions, giving two separate addresses—one about gas prices, and another from remarks given at a conference—next to each other. “Two videos posted within a couple of hours of each other. I mean… you tell me what’s going on here…,” the post said.

@FiveTimesAugust followed this up later with a video composite of the two videos that these images were taken from, that cuts back and forth between those appearances one sentence at a time. The video from @FiveTimesAugust has now been viewed more than a million times. The eyes appear quite different and, if you’ve been primed to believe it, they appear to show two different-looking versions of what is supposed to be the same man. “Both supposedly from today, both only a few hours apart,” the tweet said. “What the hell is happening here?”