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* In early 2020, [[https://youtu.be/aca0KWoHtqQ this audio]] of a fight between Creator/JohnnyDepp and then wife Creator/AmberHeard found its way onto [=YouTube=]. It went viral and swayed public opinion to Depp's side about how she'd supposedly abused him for years. The audio was ostensibly Heard starting a physical fight, admitting to being the aggressor in their relationship, and mocking Depp that no one would believe she was abusing him because he was a man. However, it was later revealed that summer in Depp's defamation case against a tabloid in the UK that the audio was chopped up, misleadingly edited with different parts spliced together, and removed of context. [[https://youtu.be/k9pbrBmHI58 The full audio]] tells a different story. The full context of the audio was that Heard, who has always admitted to having occasionally hit him back in self defense and once in defense of her sister, was talking about hitting him reactively after he slammed a door over her foot. The edited audio makes it sound like she is taunting him about how no one would believe she was abusing him because he was "a man". The full quote is allegedly, "Tell the world Johnny. Tell them, "I, Johnny Depp, a man, I'm a victim of domestic violence too and see how many people believe or side with you." She never, in fact, said "a man", she said "man" mocking his manner of speaking. What she said was, "You can please tell people that it was a fair fight, and see what the ju-, see what the jury and judge thinks. Tell the world Johnny, tell them Johnny Depp, I Johnny Depp, man, I'm, I'm am a victim too of domestic violence." What she is saying is that if someone on the outside were to find out what he was doing to her, no one would believe their physical fights were fair because he, being a man, was so much bigger and stronger than her. This recording is also stripped of the context of having come from a few days after a particularly brutal beatdown where her friend she'd been talking to on the phone at the time had called 911 because he believed he was about to kill her and that's why she said something about the cops finding out. She admits in the recording that she hit him on instinct thinking he was about to get violent with her again which he never denies having done. Depp's lawyer, Adam Waldman, was kicked off his case against Heard in the US by the original judge in part for leaking the audio and potentially biasing jurors.

* A ''WesternAnimation/Ben10UltimateAlien'' tie-in story in ''Creator/CartoonNetwork Action Pack'' saw Ben get interviewed by an alien reporter named Gorphax; he was subsequently filmed going about his daily routine, from typical teenager things to saving the news team from a [=DNAlien=] attack. When the broadcast is aired, we find out that it was edited to make Gorphax look like the hero of the tale and Ben look like a helpless coward.