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Has an orca really killed the coach Jessica Radcliffe? The truth behind the viral clip
This viral moment turned out to be nothing more than an whale of a tale.
After a video spreads to social media representing a whale coach named Jessica Radcliffe killed by an orca, it was revealed that not only Radcliffe does not exist, but also The whole video was a hoax.
Instead, multiple outlets confirmed that the video was generated by AI.
And although there have been real incidents in which animal coaches were killed by whales, as in the case of SeaWorld Trainer Dawn Brancheauwhich was fired in a swimming pool by Orca Tilikum in 2010 – there were many more online hoaxes that caught forest fires.
Take the case of Steve BurnsFor example. After Clues of Blue The host left Nickelodeon’s children’s show in the first aughts, there were rumors that he died. But as attest to the living and well Steve, none of them was true.
“Everyone thought I was dead for a while,” he said The New York Times Last September. “I was a kind of urban legend. And it hurt, to be honest. And it was somehow spoiled me because it happened when the Internet was starting in the internet. No one, including myself, was somehow prepared for the degree of consensus that it represented. When a million billion people, all think that you died for 15 years.
