Dave Jorgensen

You may have seen a TikTok recently in which someone takes a fully wrapped stack of Pez candy and puts it in the bottom of a Pez dispenser and then it comes out fully unwrapped.

It's fake.

There's a plastic bottom here that the candy would not be able to get around.

I instantly knew this because I was a super cool and totally normal kid that collected 400 pest dispensers.

But what about the other people that were also totally normal and cool kids that didn't see the obvious cut in that TikTok?

Video in particular can be a very powerful vehicle for misinformation.

And when it's something much more important than a pest dispenser, it can be really dangerous too.

Here's some false claims that were made on the internet just last week.

My editor suggested the last one.

Who knows if that's true?

Anyway, so, you know, unless you were a Pez head like me, that story wasn't probably that important to you.

But it was a nice way into talking about media literacy, especially on TikTok, where people were taking what they saw at face value and not really challenging it.

And sometimes what happens is that everything you see online, people think is true.

So ...

One example of that, more recently, up to date in 2025, is this video from Will Smith's social media team.

He was on a tour.

Some of you, I heard some grumbles.

Get ready for your minds to be blown.

Because this video was a compilation of a lot of the crowds at his different concerts going through Europe, and it was pretty clearly AI-generated.

There's a lot of extra fingers on these people.