Watch the video: “Shut up!” – School kid allegedly bullies First Lady Jill Biden – what’s behind the video.
A rude heckling at a school visit by Jill Biden – this clip is said to show how a child interrupts and insults the US first lady.
“(…) my first day is next Tuesday.”
“Shut up!”
The video circulated on social networks in August 2023. On platform X alone, formerly Twitter, an upload of the video is viewed more than 3.2 million times.
But what does it mean? Is the clip fake?
The video of the brazen interjection is a fake.
The insult was subsequently placed under the First Lady’s video – apparently to create a mood against the US President’s wife on social media.
News reports about the Bidens’ school attendance show the exact same scene – but without the heckling.
The vulgar exclamation comes from another video published on YouTube back in 2019. In the clip, a child can be heard insulting his teacher.
As early as 2021, this exact audio snippet was used to manipulate another video of Jill Biden at a children’s book reading.
The case highlights how easily two videos can be combined into a new, misleading clip.
This creates the impression that the First Lady of the USA is interrupted by a cheeky heckling during a school visit – which was not the case at this event.
How do we check videos for manipulation in the editorial office? It is important to look at the details. The individual frames of a video often reveal whether a video has been edited. We take a close look at each image and enlarge individual sections. Indications of a fake are, for example: lack of motion blur, unnatural shadows or editing errors. The general rule at stern is: Seriousness before speed. We always double-check facts and material thoroughly before publishing them. For this we work with the cross-editorial “Team Verification” together with RTL, NTV, RTL2, Radio NRW.