The Alefantis Facebook Messenger video is fake and you can verify it yourself very easily. Here is how. (pizzagate)

submitted ago by Throwaway24398021

Earlier, someone posted a link to a video where they reproduce a fake messenger conversation with Alefantis.

Here's the thing. Above the Facebook chat box, there are a few icons. When you message someone on Facebook who isn't your friend, the video and audio icons are greyed out, because you can't video call or audio call people who aren't your friends. The icons look like they look in the "faking" video. In the "verification" video, guess what? The icons are not greyed out. For some reason, he can start a video or audio call with this guy who is not his friend (and clearly has pretty high privacy settings).

Try it out yourself. Open a chat box with a friend and a stranger on Facebook. Notice the difference.

He's edited a chat he had with a friend using the method described in the video. He's taking you for a ride. Don't fall for it.

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BlueTesla ago

Nice job, i should have seen this earlier but couldn't watch the video at work. That just about does it, this one is debunked. edit: tested this on my phone, you're actually wrong. Once somebody has accepted your message request you can call them. Even without being friends. Try it. I will post a screebshot when i get to my pc.

Millennial_Falcon ago

Okie dokie. Flairing OP as debunked!

Throwaway24398021 ago

I've made an edit. I still don't trust the guy pushing an online merch store given the extremely limited information he's provided, but I guess a real conversation is indistinguishable in this regard at least.

Edit: I think it's worth remembering this doesn't prove it was real. It's still very, very easy to fake the evidence he's provided. It wouldn't have been hard for him to just scroll up to the "James Alefantis accepted your message request" section of the conversation. Come on, how likely is it that Alefantis, smart enough to successfully run multiple covers for human trafficking, would be dumb enough to publically utter death threats over a recordable medium? Why is he using the word "shill"? Really?

Millennial_Falcon ago

Yeah, I saw. By the way I was referring to the post when I said "OP," not you (submitter).