The accusations against producer and rapper Sean Combs have been accompanied by a profusion of rumors and hoaxes. A potpourri of traps to avoid.
Producer and rapper Sean Combs, known as “Diddy” or “Puff Daddy,” has been charged with rape and human trafficking in a federal court in New York since September 16. According to defense attorney Tony Buzbee, one hundred and twenty plaintiffs have since come forward
But the explosion linked to his arrest was also accompanied, on social networks, by an impressive profusion of rumors, hoaxes and gossip of all kinds. A veritable potpourri of disinformation methods, from the decontextualized image to the audio tape replaced by a voice generated by artificial intelligence, through pure urban legends. They all serve two ambitions: to generate an audience easily or to smear public figures. And sometimes, both at the same time.
Several sensationalist publications claim that rapper Sean Combs is not only suspected of rape, but also of Satanism and cannibalism . These are all accompanied by one or more photos showing the producer in front of a naked woman lying on a bamboo bed, surrounded by candles.
These photos are authentic and give an idea of ​​how women were treated at the parties Diddy attended. However, this is not a human sacrifice. As shown in the series of photos obtained by the American celebrity site TMZ , this naked woman is surrounded by grapes, strawberries and pastries: these are the foods that were offered to the guests.
In a pseudo-interview seen millions of times, Hillary Clinton details her plans to kill Diddy by smothering him with fried chicken, as revenge for his ties to her husband, Bill Clinton, as she allegedly did previously with Jeffrey Epstein, the millionaire accused of numerous sexual assaults found hanged in his cell in 2019.
The former Democratic candidate for the White House did indeed give a television interview to American journalist Willie Geist, on MSNBC, on September 19, from which these images are taken. But the words spoken are not authentic. Generated by artificial intelligence (AI), they were placed on the video in place of the audio track of the original interview, where the former candidate discusses Joe Biden’s choice to withdraw from the American presidential campaign.
The video also contains several absurdities, although more discreet: the basketball player is wearing his bra, when in reality he reserves it for matches; his headdress is misshapen; finally, the background has suspicious compression artifacts. The first occurrence of this shot was posted in July by Manmeetsmachine, an Instagram account specializing in humorous hijackings of celebrities made by AI ( like, here, Ryan Gosling and other actors in TeletubbiesÂ
The tunnels under Diddy’s house, an urban legend
Depending on the version, it would be linked to the Playboy mansion, a former hotbed of erotic parties in Hollywood, where Bill Cosby sexually assaulted a teenage girl in 1975  ; a former property of Michael Jackson, who was accused of pedophilia; or even more vaguely to Hollywood.These are completely fabricated allegations, the fruit of contemporary conspiratorial imagination, which sees pedosatanist tunnels everywhere.
Sean Combs did buy a Los Angeles mansion in 2014 that had a swimming lane that opened onto a private grotto, but the information is public. Some sites are relying on a CNN screenshot, but it was manipulated to show a fake banner, 20 Minutes reports
Posts accuse high-ranking politicians of being complicit in child molestation at parties with Diddy, with a 9-year-old child among the complainants, according to the prosecution’s lawyer.
Barack Obama is one of the victims of these defamation operations, with a photo of the former American president with an Asian girl as proof. These defamatory publications, which were already circulating in 2020, actually show the former Democratic president with his niece .
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