In late August 2025, a YouTube video claiming to contain an audio recording of a speech by Canadian-American actor and comedian Jim Carrey on "the painful reality of Palestine's suffering and the world's deafening silence" spread online amid Israel's war in Gaza.
The 19-minute, 21-second speech began like this:
Imagine a wound so deep that the earth itself seems to cry. Yet the world walks past it as if nothing bleeds. Palestine is not just a story of conflict. It is a living tragedy that has unfolded in plain sight where the cries of children echo through broken walls and silence has become the loudest sound from the international stage. What if I told you that this silence is not accidental, but deliberate, woven into the very fabric of global politics, media narratives, and human indifference. ...
The video had over 135,000 views and 13,000 likes as of this writing. Snopes readers also searched the website for information on the legitimacy of the audio recording.
However, the purported audio recording of Carrey's voice was generated by artificial intelligence. Thus, we rate this claim fake. (For more information on how to spot AI-generated content, check out our explainer on AI slop.)
In the description of the video, it was labeled as "altered or synthetic content," meaning the content has been "meaningfully altered or synthetically generated." Furthermore, an AI detector tool, Hiya Deepfake Voice Detector, determined through a clip of the video that the "sampled voice is likely a deepfake."
Furthermore, a search for Carrey's name and "Palestine" in Google returned no results from reputable entertainment news outlets about any comments made by Carrey on Gaza. If Carrey had really spoken for about 20 minutes on the conflict, it likely would have made news.
Snopes has previously fact-checked claims about Carrey, including whether he said, "Grief is not just an emotion — it is an unraveling."