Viral video of Elon Musk firing his employees over Zoom is fake

Hyderabad: Several social media users have shared a video of Elon Musk on a Zoom call with his employees with a misleading claim.

In the viral video, Twitter CEO Elon Musk can be seen firing his remote employees over a video call. He then laughs at the employees after firing them and removes them from the meeting.

Did Elon Musk fire employees over Zoom? Read on to find out.

Fact Check

NewsMeter found the claim to be false as the viral video is fake.

We ran a keyword search but did not find any media reports about the incident. However, we notice a watermark on the video that read “GeoMFilms.” A search using GeoMFilms as a keyword took us to a YouTube channel with the same name.

On analysing the YouTube channel, we found that it uploads dubbed videos. We found a similar video of Elon Musk firing all his employees over a call.

On the right side of the video screen, we can notice the words ‘AI Zoom’, which suggests it is an AI-generated video. We also found a video of Elon Musk firing Joe Biden.

Finally, we spotted the viral video on the same channel. The description read, “Elon Musk DUB fires employees in twitter zoom meeting. Elon Musk fires all employees on Twitter meetings over random questions about long work hours, tesla, free speech, Amber Heard and more. Random employee freaks out. This is a FAKE/DUB/HUMOR/EDIT (sic).”

From this, it is evident that a parody YouTube channel that uploads AI-generated content with voice cloning is behind the viral video. Hence, the video of Elon Musk firing employees over Zoom is fake.