They already can fake video.

Well to an extent.

Can combine it with this to make it seem even more realistic https://youtu.be/I3l4XLZ59iw

Tim Pool died in malmo and someone behind the scenes is representing him now

must be his evil twin brother, Tom Pond

not even a lookalike is used now

The technology exists currently for very fluid wax masks

The only way to really know for sure is to make the ambient temperature above 88 deg F

You see; back in the early 80's there was a hacker conglomerate out of El Paso

They had been researching Facial recognition as part of a larger DARPA project

They were attempting to figure out what the larger purpose of the project was; and eventually they'd stumble upon it in 1991. Mass surveillance; gathering everything possible from 24/7 cameras around the world.

DARPA, in league with the NSA had been essentially backdooring every DVR and every associated piece of hardware to stream what data it could directly to sites all across the US.

It was a large distributed system, much like the one that currently exists today.

So in 1992; knowing that their faces were already registered, mapped; and they were being tracked everywhere as they were research assets, they decided to take matters into their own hands.

First, they put eye protection on

Then they put 70/30 mixtures of sufuric acid splashed onto their face

melting it, as it were; to prevent any unique facial signs from appearing

Once they healed from the burns, about 4-5 months down the road, they began to don 'masks' of this wax

it was temporary at first, but the scarring and nullification of their facial features added a good place for the wax to keep a hold on what remained of their skin

They took up new faces

Facial recognition was useless when they could change their facial features pretty much at will.

To test this; in 1993 there was a large robbery at the first national bank building, in El Paso

6 members of the group went in, threatened to blow the place up if they were not presented with a million dollars.... All with the face of David Duchovny.

The bank quickly caved.

When the feds began to look into it; the only real piece of evidence was a DNA sample and some of the leftover wax

It wouldn't be until 2010 that the sample would be linked to a large string of corporate fraud at tech companies around the US; and one from a DARPA research lab.

Since they had ALL dropped off the map; all 16 members of that conglomerate were put on a fbi watch list; but there was no way to know which was guilty

In early 2011 there would be an incident at a computer store in New Hampshire during winter. A customer walks in and he quickly runs to the bathroom; escaping the snow

but the heat in the building is on overdrive. Everyone's sweating

He comes back out, grabs some items and then walks to the counter.

The cashier notices peach colored droplets falling from his face

The customers face becomes distorted, and suddenly the customer runs out after noticing his predicament.

Before his exit though, a large chunk of wax falls, revealing to the security cameras a scarred cheek.

Initially, it's treated as a strange occurrence; but an hour later they get a call from the FBI

They are told to close up for the day

The workers were told not to speak of the incident ever again.

how do you know this if they were told to never speak of it again

especially if they got a call an hour after the incident

I thought he was writing some kind of fanfiction about Tim.

would be more interesting if it was a story about secret government programs to create mind control beanies, but the lab exploded and a sentient beanie took control of one of the lab assistants and decided to dedicate its new life as a journalist

the plot twist being that its the beanie that is Tim Pool all along

It is