We naturally expect captions to accurately describe content. On April 15, 2022, the above-displayed clip went viral after it was shared with captions claiming that Biden "tried to shake hands with thin air." If you were going to caption this video, what would you write? Keep your caption in mind as we show you how this video was framed and shared on social media. Then we saw him walk off the stage where he appeared to talk to someone in the crowd. We saw him turn to the back of the stage. We saw him turn toward another group of people. We saw him step away from the podium after finishing his speech. Here's what we saw when we watched the video: We saw President Joe Biden standing at a podium. What do you see? How would you describe this video? Let’s take a look at the following video: Ignore what the caption is claiming for a moment and allow yourself the opportunity to judge the footage for yourself. When assessing the credibility of a viral video caption, it's helpful to watch (and judge) the video on its own merits. People who saw and believed the bird pooping caption might not be able to “unsee” it, even when presented with evidence to the contrary. Furthermore, it’s difficult for most people to shake off a first impression. Videos carrying corrected captions about distillers grain falling on Biden's lapel don’t have anywhere near that reach. The versions of this video claiming that a bird pooped on Biden garnered literally millions of views. Unfortunately, social media is geared to give attention to sensationalized content. While the visuals in both videos are identical, the framing affects how we interpret what we see. If, for example, I share a video with the caption “a bird just pooped on Biden’s shoulder,” you might be more inclined to conclude that the video really does show a bird pooping on Biden’s shoulder.īut what if you first encountered this video with a different caption? What if you saw this video with the caption, “ Piece of distillers grain falls on Biden while speaking at a bioprocessing facility.” What would you see then? Videos like this are not new, a quick search for “invisibility cloak” on youtube displays a whole range of homemade invisibility cloak videos that are very similar in design.Nearly every piece of media we come across on our social media feeds has been framed in a specific way to influence our opinion on what it is that we are seeing. The effect has previously been seen in a lot of action movies.” “Software such as Adobe’s After Effects Nuke or Blackmagic Fusion can edit the background and blend the objects into it. Zhu Zhensong, the producer of Quantum Video production company told Jiefang Daily the video had likely been edited and filmed with a blue or green plastic cloth. This is a totally different kind of invisibility cloak however and video producers were quick to debunk the hoax. The Zhejiang University has also had breakthroughs in stealth technology when in 2013 researchers at the university created a “ box of invisibility” that hides animals. It was named as one of the top 10 scientific discoveries of that year by Time magazine. A discovery that allows engineered material to manipulate and bend light. This was achieved thanks to a breakthrough in research he made on metamaterials in 2008. In 2015, Professor Zhang Xiang and his team developed a thin cloak that could wrap around objects and create the illusion of invisibility of microscopic objects. It’s been reported that Zhang Xiang has been tipped to become the University of Hong Kong’s vice chancellor. The origin of the video appears to still be in question with some claiming it was made by professors at the Zhejiang University and others claiming it is the creation of Professor Zhang Xiang from the University of California, Berkeley. “It can reflect the light wave around the person who wears it, so it can make the person disappear.” “This is a quantum technology-made cloth that is made of transparent material,” he wrote. The video was enough to fool China’s deputy head of Criminal Investigation Department at the Ministry of Public Security, Chen Shiqu, who shared the video on his Weibo account and claimed it could be useful for military matters. The one-minute clip has been viewed by over 20 million people and shared by news outlets around the globe. The video that shows a man standing in the middle of a bush covering himself with a “quantum invisibility cloak” has received a lot of attention and has caused a lot of excitement on social media.
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