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That Viral Prison Break Video Is a Hoax

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55% Informative

On February 20, 2025 , a man named William Banks posted a video on X and Instagram that showed him breaking out of jail.

Itâs gone mega-viral and has been viewed more than 10 million times on X alone.

Banks is a comedian and all around online weirdo.

Over the past few months , heâs been building the narrative around the jailbreak in a series of videos supposedly shot from inside a Connecticut -area prison.

The online version of events is that police arrested Banks in February of 2024 for stealing pro-Israeli yard signs.

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30

Informative language

13

Neutral language

41

Article tone

formal

Language

English

Language complexity

36

Offensive language

likely offensive

Hate speech

not hateful

Attention-grabbing headline

not detected

Known propaganda techniques

detected

Time-value

short-lived

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