Glenn Beck confronts viral rumor that Netanyahu’s death is being hidden

A viral hoax circulating right now claims Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is dead. Conspiracy theorists perpetuating this narrative speculate that his recent appearances are actually sophisticated AI deepfakes, despite fact-checks confirming he’s alive and well.

Glenn Beck was disturbed when he realized the popularity of this conspiracy theory.

“We have to be able to see through these fake stories. We have to slow down enough and think through logically,” he says.

Hiding Netanyahu’s death would demand “silence from the people who physically surround him — that’s family, personal staff, security detail, medical personnel, drivers, aides, schedulers,” Glenn adds.

Some of those people, he argues, would “have every incentive — financial, ideological, even personal — to speak up if something this enormous were true,” making it “damn