https://www.foxnews.com/sports/damar-hamlin-makes-first-video-comments-cardiac-arrest
Direct link to video: https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cn-hfT0vhBH/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y%3D
I'm not convinced. The video has a ton of edits in the middle of him speaking. The cuts are mid-word and mid sentence, not at the end of a sentence. There is no sign of him reading from a teleprompter either, which he undoubtedly would be. There are a lot of facial tics and strange movement of his face, but I don't have a video to compare it to. If anyone has a link to a Damar interview, that would be helpful. This looks like a very good deep fake, IMO.
Undoubtedly, this will be used as proof of life and the video will be used to quash the "Damar is dead" narrative.
I wouldn't say it was a bad deep fake. If it is a fake, it's pretty good as most people wouldn't even notice the frame clipping.