Fact Check: FAKE Video Shows Police Officer in Dispute With Four 'Undercover FBI Agents' On a Plane

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  • by: Lead Stories Staff
Fact Check: FAKE Video Shows Police Officer in Dispute With Four 'Undercover FBI Agents' On a Plane Actors Acting

Did a widely-shared video show an argument between a police officer and four undercover FBI agents on an airplane? No, that's not true: The people in the video were simply acting out a scripted scenario. The page that posted the sketch routinely publishes similar scripted scenarios, and is affiliated with Network Media, a company that rents out film sets to various online "content producers".

The video was posted to Facebook on June 24, 2025 (archived here), with the caption "4 undercover FBI agents make a cop lose their job." It shows a police officer asking a man to show his ID on board a flight, at the request of a flight attendant, while three other passengers sit silently in different seats in the same section. The man refuses for several minutes, before eventually he and the three men sitting near him show their law enforcement badges and reveal themselves to be undercover.

The video can be watched below:

Parts of the video were reposted in a June 25 post on TikTok (archived here) which garnered 1.5 million views.

In reality, those were actors and not police officers, FBI agents or flight attendants, and the location was a film set, not a real airplane.

The page that posted the video, Law Talk / True Crime, routinely publishes similar sketches that feature the same actors. For example, the woman who plays the flight attendant in the June 24 video has appeared in earlier Law Talk / True Crime scenes.

Lead Stories has debunked previous fake Law Talk / True Crime videos.

Finally, the description of Law Talk / True Crime states (archived here) that the page is run by "JS HOLDINGS 1 NM LLC" (archived here), a company whose subsidiary, Network Media, rents out film sets (archived here) to "content producers" who publish similar scripted scenes:

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(Image source: Screenshot from networkmedia.com)

Indeed, the design and layout of the ceiling lights and windows in the fake airplane shown in the June 24 video match up exactly with a set labelled "Airplane" on the website of Network Media, as shown below:

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(Image source: Lead Stories collage of screenshots from networkmedia.com and Law Talk / True Crime on Facebook)

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