SOME believe it is fake. But I would say a greater majority of those people who spout this know that it is fake and do it to foment discord, particularly the originator. For example, someone hatched the idea that the pilot was trans, picked a name of a trans person out of a hat, and declared that they were the pilot. And then people were insisting that this trans person purposely crashed the helicopter until they put out a proof of life video. What good did that do? This is worse than ignorance. It is just purposeful evil.