Mel Gibson Reveals Ashton Kutcher Is a ‘Hidden Handler’ for Hollywood Elites?

On Sept. 16, 2023, the purported celeb gossip YouTube channel Simply In (@JustInCeleb) revealed a video that claimed actor Mel Gibson had uncovered actor Ashton Kutcher was a “hidden hander” for Hollywood elites.

The clip’s title learn, “Mel Gibson Reveals Ashton Kutcher Is A HIDDEN Handler For Hollywood.”

The video was considered simply over 32,000 instances on YouTube. Nevertheless, it was a repost of the similar clip on TikTok that basically took off, incomes greater than 640,000 views.

This clip’s narration, scripting, sequencing and thumbnail picture all appeared to have been a product of synthetic intelligence (AI), video-creation instruments.

The video (archived) started as follows:

AI-GENERATED NARRATOR VOICE: Mel Gibson has gained a repute for being outspoken about some unsettling truths inside Hollywood. And this time, it seems he is set his sights on the beloved Ashton Kutcher, who not too long ago discovered himself on the middle of an issue.

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It is evident that he has by no means been afraid to talk his thoughts, and that features not fearing Kutcher both. To that finish, the web appears to be abuzz with hypothesis that Gibson seems to be ready to unveil some uncomfortable hidden truths about Ashton as nicely, suggesting that he is perhaps a handler.

The “controversy” referenced within the video was that it had been revealed that Kutcher and his spouse, actor Mila Kunis, had written character letters in search of leniency for convicted rapist and former “That ’70s Present” co-star Danny Masterson. This information was first reported on Sept. 7 by ABC7 Los Angeles investigative producer Lisa Bartley and others on the identical day that Masterson had been sentenced to 30 years to life in jail.

On Sept. 9, Kutcher and Kunis posted an apology video on Instagram.

Then, on Sept. 15, as a consequence of backlash to the reveal of the character letters, Kutcher introduced in a press release that he could be stepping down from his place as chairman of the board of Thorn, an anti-child intercourse abuse group. The YouTube video in query was posted on the following day.

Regardless of all of this, the reality of this matter was that the title of the YouTube video and the thumbnail picture had been each false. The clip by no means supplied proof that Gibson had publicly remarked about Kutcher’s controversy involving Masterson, nor did it present any proof of Gibson calling Kutcher a “handler” who had “betrayed us.”

The video merely confirmed previous, out-of-context clips of Gibson remarking about quite a lot of completely different topics, none of which had something to do with Kutcher.

The clip additionally misleadingly implied that Gibson had a hand in directing “Sound of Freedom,” a movie centered on little one intercourse trafficking. Nevertheless, the film was was written and directed by Alejandro Monteverde, not Gibson.

The video even went as far as to assert, with no proof by any means, that Kutcher had tried to cease the “Sound of Freedom” from being made.

On the very backside of the outline beneath the YouTube video, a spot that the overwhelming majority of viewers probably would not see, a reasonably necessary disclaimer learn as follows:

Disclaimer: Content material is perhaps gossip, rumors, exaggerated or not directly in addition to the reality. Viewer suggested to do personal analysis earlier than forming their opinion. Content material is perhaps opinionated.

As we have seen with many of those AI-generated movies throughout a number of celeb gossip YouTube channels, this clip contained a deceptive video title with a mixture of previous and unrelated information, false claims and different emotionally charged moments that probably had been meant to elicit indignant responses within the feedback. Such movies usually find yourself with tons of or 1000’s of feedback from customers who indicated that they’d believed the deceptive data offered within the clips.

We beforehand reported about one other video that was additionally revealed by the Simply In YouTube channel. That video claimed that Gibson had revealed one thing not nearly Kutcher, but in addition had uncovered leisure icon Oprah Winfrey, purportedly with related allegations.

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