{"id":815189,"date":"2024-12-27T03:20:25","date_gmt":"2024-12-27T09:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/27\/viral-countdown-video-supposedly-from-luigi-mangione-is-a-fake-youtube-says\/"},"modified":"2024-12-27T03:20:25","modified_gmt":"2024-12-27T09:20:25","slug":"viral-countdown-video-supposedly-from-luigi-mangione-is-a-fake-youtube-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/27\/viral-countdown-video-supposedly-from-luigi-mangione-is-a-fake-youtube-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Viral Countdown Video Supposedly From Luigi Mangione Is a Fake, YouTube Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Have you seen a mysterious video featuring a countdown clock that purports to be from <a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/computer-programmer-named-person-of-interest-in-killing-of-unitedhealthcare-ceo-2000536144\">Luigi Mangione<\/a>, the 26-year-old \u201cperson of interest\u201d in last week\u2019s killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York? The video went viral Monday on YouTube, getting attention on sites like <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=42370688\">Hacker News<\/a>. But it\u2019s completely fake.<\/p>\n<p>Mangione reportedly had a \u201cmanifesto\u201d as well as a ghost gun and was arrested at a McDonald\u2019s in Altoona, Pennsylvania on Monday. He was charged with five crimes, including carrying a gun without a license, forgery, falsely identifying himself to authorities, and possessing instruments of crime, according to a criminal complaint <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RickyReports\/status\/1866266894535119143\">posted online<\/a>. But Mangione wasn\u2019t charged with the murder of Thompson and hasn\u2019t been named as a suspect, despite the fact that the internet is treating him as one.<\/p>\n<p>A video popped up on Monday that appeared to be from a YouTube account associated with Mangione. It opened with the words \u201cThe Truth\u201d and \u201cIf you see this, I\u2019m already under arrest.\u201d It featured a countdown clock that first counted from 5 to 1 before flipping to 60 and counting down all the way to zero from there.<\/p>\n<p>The lower right corner included the word \u201cSoon\u201d and briefly flashed the date Dec. 11 before disappearing again in less than a second. It ended with the words \u201cAll is scheduled, be patient. Bye for now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re curious what the video actually looked like, you can <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/clJIt6GjDyQ\">check it out here<\/a>, assuming YouTube doesn\u2019t take this one down, too. We promise we\u2019re not trying to trick anyone with it. But it can be interesting to see what the fuss is all about after some hoax has gone viral but you missed it.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Fake video purporting to be from Luigi Mangione\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/about:blank\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-rocket-lazyload=\"fitvidscompatible\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/clJIt6GjDyQ?feature=oembed\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The account was created back in January 2024, and it\u2019s entirely possible for someone to set up a kind of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dead_man%27s_switch\">dead man\u2019s switch<\/a>\u2014they schedule a video to publish at some future time, intending to stop the auto-publish if they have not been arrested (or killed, or whatever the scenario might be). But YouTube confirmed to Gizmodo that it wasn\u2019t real.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"m_9160831535823721877gmail-docs-internal-guid-15774247-7fff-91fe-9390-0d7af996a008\">\u201cWe terminated the channel in question for violating our policies covering impersonation, which prohibit content intended to impersonate another person on YouTube,\u201d a spokesperson for the video platform told Gizmodo over email Monday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe channel\u2019s metadata was updated following widespread reporting of Luigi Mangione\u2019s arrest, including updates made to the channel name and handle,\u201d the spokesperson continued. \u201cAdditionally, we terminated 3 other channels owned by the suspect, per our Creator Responsibility Guidelines.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The spokesperson also noted that these accounts had been dormant for months. Who is actually behind the video? That remains unknown. But our money is on something related to crypto. Who knows?<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/that-viral-video-supposedly-from-luigi-mangione-is-totally-fake-2000536337\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you seen a mysterious video featuring a countdown clock that purports to be from Luigi Mangione, the 26-year-old \u201cperson of interest\u201d in last week\u2019s killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York? The video went viral Monday on YouTube, getting attention on sites like Hacker News. But it\u2019s completely fake. Mangione reportedly had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":815190,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26168,932,104640],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-815189","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-countdown","8":"category-viral","9":"category-youtube-videos"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=815189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/815190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=815189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=815189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=815189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}