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Chicago-Area Billboards Hacked to Show MrBeast Endorsing Anti-Israel Messages


MrBeast's smiling faced posed next to messages calling for the death of Israel.

For roughly 90 minutes last night, two billboards in a Chicago suburb displayed anti-Israel messages bearing the name of Mr Beast. MrBeast’s team did not return Gizmodo’s request for comment but told local news outlet Fox 32 that it had nothing to do with the sign. As massive advertising billboards gained prominence in the U.S. during the 1960s, artists and political activists began to climb up to them and paint over them with their own messages.

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