In January 2024, a video scattered on the Internet, where producer Damon Imani, speaking at the World Economic Forum, shouts insults to its founder and other participants. We decided to check if this happened in reality.

It is alleged that 19-second videowhich Published some information portals - fragment From the broadcast with the WEF, on which the man standing behind the stands against the background of the forum logos shouts curses against the founder of the Klaus Schwab forum and participants in the event. He shouts: “I am grateful to the World Economic Forum for the opportunity to be on this stage and say:“ Go to hell, Klaus Schwab, and go to hell, a new world order. We, people, were born free and remain free, and you and all your Globalists, including all who are in this hall, can go to the devil! ” After that, the founder of the WEF and President of Switzerland, Viola Amerd, allegedly present at this moment on the stage, get up and leave, and the broadcast breaks off. Scandalous videos were shared by users of social networks ("VKontakte" X, Facebook) And Platform blogas well as the authors of many popular Telegram channels, for example, “Bocharik (yeah, the same)"(253,000 views at the time of writing this analysis) and"Blue Z Beard"(78,000 views).

World Economic Forum - A non -governmental organization created by German economist Klaus Schwab in 1971. Annually, the WEF holds a summit in the Swiss Davos, where political, business and cultural leaders from around the world come to Discuss Prospects for global economic development, political problems and other pressing issues. After the beginning of the pandemic Covid-19, Klaus Schwab made an initiative called “Great reboot", In which he proposed to consider the pandemic as an opportunity to reorganize the global economy in order to create a" healthier, fair and prosperous future. " Around the initiative of Schwab, the theories of the conspiracy immediately arose - supposedly the real goal of these changes is to create an authoritarian world government led by powerful businessmen and politicians. Since then, both the WEF and Schwab itself have become objects of fake news. So, earlier on the Internet the news was distributed that to combat the climate change of the WEF proposed To strew A million domestic cats and dogs that the forum participants called for resolving Marriage with animals and that the father of Schwab was a trustee Hitler. All of them turned out to be false.

“Verified” failed to find the news about the resonant performance of Damon Imani at the WEF in any authoritative media. I did not give anything and the search on the site itself forum. IN program The events, which in 2024 took place from January 14 to January 19, is also not the speaker with that name.

The video itself looks suspicious: if you look closely, it is noticeable that although Imani, Schwab and Amerd are on the same stage, the lighting of their faces differs significantly, like the image quality, Imani is visible more clearly. This suggests that the figure of the odious speaker is simply added to the video on the installation.

If you look for the name of Damon Imani in Google, you can find his personal website. It says that he is a producer and artist of Iranian origin from Denmark, creating a video on various topics, including social problems and relevant news. It is also noted that Imani's content is known for its satirical orientation. January 17, 2024, Imani published a disassembled video in several of his accounts at once - on the platforms YouTube, X And Instagram. Under each of the posts there is a note: “Satire, but truth” (periphrases of the common English -language phrase “Sad But True” - “Sad, but Truth”).

Imani later posted a few more VEF videos on Instagram - each of them also accompanied the satirical nature of the publication. For example, in one of rollers Imani stands on the rostrum with a bruise under the eye and at first apologizes for curses to the participants of the VEF, and then begins to shout them again. In the social network X to the Imani post, a note was added as part of the Community Notes program, which gives users the opportunity to reasonably refute inaccurate messages or supplement manipulative posts. Imani I was indignantthat he himself noted this post as a satire, and just a link to his post with this mark and was used in the comments of Community Notes as a confirmation of inaccuracy. He stated that, marrying the post as not true, they are simply trying to deprive him of monetization.

Facts from the agency AFP We found a video from the forum that was used to create a video of Imani. The moment where he allegedly plays behind the stands, turning to a mop sitting on the stage, Take From the broadcast of the welcoming word of the President of the WEF Berge Brende, whom the creator of the video dismantled and replaced with his image. From the same record is borrowed fragment, where Shvab and Amerd leave the scene, supposedly outraged by Imani's speech.

Thus, a video where one of the speakers of the WEF Damon Imani allegedly sends and insults Klaus Schwab and other forum participants is the result of video editing, and its author is Imani himself. He posted a video into his social networks, explaining unequivocally that this is a satire, but many Internet users took the video for the present and distributed it with appropriate comments.

Photo on the cover: screenshot video YouTube Damon Imani Reposts