For someone who makes videos for a living, Shmee should know better. It is much more likely a "better clip" was overlaid over actual data, than someone tried to use video as Prima Fascie evidence, knowing it wouldn't hold up to scrutiny. My money says film crew fuckup. https://twitter.com/liam_white/status/1321190493225684999
there are any number of reasons the video crew could have produced a video with correct telemetry but a clip showing a different run. directors and social media teams are not always, or ever really, evidence gatherers.
Maybe the light was better; maybe a camera died in the hot desert sun; maybe the crosswind oliver talked about looked sketchy as fuck on video and they didn't want to show it. Lots of reasons that, in hindsight, seem dumb, but are innocent enough.
But the bottom line is, actually maliciously faking the run and the results is a BOLD move. Not totally implausible, but fucking B-O-L-D. And I'm willing to consider other, more plausible theories before I go with the malicious fabrication one.
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