Jack Ma makes first live appearance in three months in online meet

> In the 50-second video, Ma, dressed in a navy pullover, spoke directly to the camera from a room with grey marble walls and a striped carpet. It was not clear from the video or the Tianmu News article where he was speaking from.

Uh, resurfacing from a fancy prison cell, perhaps? Can anyone find the video?

EDIT: Here's the raw video: https://twitter.com/globaltimesnews/status/13517514568277196....

If you watch his eye movements, it looks like he's reading from a script.

Re: Jack Ma makes first live appearance in three months in online meet

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Post by duxup » Wed, Jan 20, 2021, 6:14 AM UTC

If Ma wanted to reappear and reassure people, not sure this would be his first choice, method, etc.

It seems weirder to just pop up like this like nothing has been going on.

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Post by nwotnagrom » Wed, Jan 20, 2021, 6:15 AM UTC

sebmellen wrote: post #5

> In the 50-second video, Ma, dressed in a navy pullover, spoke directly to the camera from a room with grey marble walls and a striped carpet. It was not clear from the video or the Tianmu News article where he was speaking from. Uh, resurfacing from a fancy prison cell, perhaps? Can anyone find the video? EDIT: Here's the raw video: https://twitter.com/globaltimesnews/status/13517514568277196... . If you watch his…

Check this link out. Its the video from the Global Times Twitter Feed.

https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3118454/alibaba-f...

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Post by boomboomsubban » Wed, Jan 20, 2021, 6:17 AM UTC

So he only had one public event scheduled between late October and now? If he suddenly ended up in custody, you'd think he would have had more events set up then canceled.

Re: Jack Ma makes first live appearance in three months in online meet

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Post by sebmellen » Wed, Jan 20, 2021, 6:17 AM UTC

nwotnagrom wrote: post #7

sebmellen wrote: post #5

> In the 50-second video, Ma, dressed in a navy pullover, spoke directly to the camera from a room with grey marble walls and a striped carpet. It was not clear from the video or the Tianmu News article where he was speaking from. Uh, resurfacing from a fancy prison cell, perhaps? Can anyone find the video? EDIT: Here's the raw video: https://twitter.com/globaltimesnews/status/13517514568277196... . If you watch his…

Check this link out. Its the video from the Global Times Twitter Feed. https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3118454/alibaba-f...

Thank you for that. The direct link to the tweet is https://twitter.com/globaltimesnews/status/13517514568277196.... That does appear to be the best quality video available.

Looks like it could be some form of house arrest.

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Post by oars » Wed, Jan 20, 2021, 6:17 AM UTC

I would love to see Facebook and Amazon researchers join forces and try to figure out whether this is a deepfake or not.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/facebook-uses-...