310,000 Views: "Warner Bros. Teamed Up With OpenAI"
At 10:42 p.m. KST on August 11, 2026, a post by the X account @DiscussingFish (about 68,000 followers) spread in an instant. It said that "Warner Bros. Discovery has partnered with OpenAI and will produce both sequels to 'Zack Snyder's Justice League' with the new Sora Text-to-Video 3.0 model." Within a day of posting, it passed 8,200 likes and 310,000 views, and at the end of the post, as if for evidence, was a link to a hollywoodreporter.com article.
We Opened the Link, and There Was Nothing About the Snyderverse
The problem was that link. If you actually open that Hollywood Reporter article, the content is entirely different. All it says is that Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav called James Gunn's follow-up film "Superman: Man of Tomorrow" "fantastic" during an earnings call. Sora, Text-to-Video 3.0, and Snyderverse sequels appear nowhere in the article. It attached a real article URL unrelated to the claim to fake credibility.
The Answer Was Already in the Account Bio
@DiscussingFish's profile describes itself as a "parody satire fake news page." The account has a history of repeatedly spreading unconfirmed entertainment gossip, such as "Timothée Chalamet is in early talks to play Iron Man in Avengers: Secret Wars." Under X's parody account labeling policy, the account name or bio has to say "parody," but when posts are quoted, screenshotted, or retweeted, that label is easily cut off and only the body text spreads as if it were real news.
No contract between Warner Bros. and OpenAI's Sora has been confirmed either. The only studio that has struck a licensing partnership with Sora so far is Disney, and even that has effectively fizzled, as OpenAI moved to shut down the Sora app itself just three months after the deal. Against that backdrop, there is no evidence anywhere that Warner Bros. separately signed a new large-scale Sora 3.0 production deal.
The Process Studios Should Follow
The practical lesson from this case is clear. The pattern of faking credibility with a "source: URL" is getting more sophisticated, and it is hard to filter out unless you open the link and check that it actually matches the post. News about AI-generated content in particular draws a lot of attention and is easy to reshare before it has been verified, so it is safer for content teams to make checking the original source before quoting a standard procedure.
Snyder's Studio Visit and the Sora Rumor Are Separate
This fact check does not claim that there is no possibility of any future collaboration between Warner Bros. and OpenAI. It is true that director Zack Snyder recently visited Warner Bros. headquarters and shared a photo with the caption "an incredible day with amazing people," and it is also true that this has revived hopes among fans of a Snyderverse comeback. But the specific claim of this tweet, "two sequels made with Sora 3.0," is an unfounded invention that is separate from those circumstances.