Producer and rapper Sean Combs, known as “Diddy” or “Puff Daddy,” has been accused since September 16 of rape and human trafficking by a federal court in New York. According to defense attorney Tony Buzbee, one hundred and twenty plaintiffs have since come forward.
But the detonation linked to his arrest was also accompanied, on social networks, by an impressive profusion of rumors, fake news and gossip of all kinds. A veritable potpourri of misinformation methods, from the decontextualized image to the audio track replaced by a voice generated by artificial intelligence, to pure urban legends. All of them respond to two ambitions: to easily generate audiences or to defame public figures. And sometimes both at the same time.
This photo does not show cannibalism.
Several tabloid publications claim that rapper Sean Combs is not only suspected of rape, but also of satanism and cannibalism. All of them are accompanied by one or more photographs that show 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 photographs obtained by the American People site. TMZThis naked woman is surrounded by grapes, strawberries and cakes: these are the foods that were offered to the guests.
A mugshot with added dildos.
The photo of the alleged seizure of hundreds of dildos from Diddy’s residence is not authentic. This is a humorous montage.
The original photo, dating from 2018, shows a drug bust conducted by police in Tenaha, Texas. She was widely mocked for the relative importance of the seizure: guns, cannabis, an empty bottle and the equivalent of 70 dollars (about 64 euros) in small bills. Since then, the photo has been the subject of numerous parodies.
AI-generated fake Hillary Clinton audio
In a pseudo-interview seen millions of times, Hillary Clinton details her plans to kill Diddy by strangling him with fried chicken, as revenge for his ties to her husband, Bill Clinton, as she allegedly did before with Jeffrey Epstein, the millionaire accused of Numerous sexual assaults found hanged in their cell in 2019.
The former Democratic candidate for the White House did give a television interview to American journalist Willie Geist, on MSNBC, on September 19, from which these images come. But the words spoken are not authentic. Generated by artificial intelligence (AI), they were placed in the video instead of the audio track of the original interview, in which the former candidate analyzes Joe Biden’s decision to withdraw from the US presidential campaign.
Fake images of LeBron James as a maid
Many posts show Los Angeles Lakers basketball star LeBron James dressed as a maid in a hotel and discuss his real or alleged ties to Diddy. it’s about deepfakesfakes made by AI.
Two details give away the photo, which has been circulating since the spring: LeBron James does not have his distinctive tattoo on his chest and he is missing a thumb from his left hand and an index finger from his right hand.
The video also contains several absurdities, although more discreet: the basketball player wears a bra, when in reality she reserves it for games; his headdress is deformed; Finally, the background has suspicious compression artifacts. The first appearance of this photo was posted in July by Manmeetsmachine, an Instagram account specializing in humorous AI kidnappings of celebrities (like, here, Ryan Gosling and other Teletubbies actors).
The tunnels under Diddy’s house, an urban legend
In The rumor has been circulating since the registration of their homes in March.
According to reports, it is related to the Playboy mansion, a former mecca of erotic parties in Hollywood, where Bill Cosby sexually assaulted a teenager in 1975; a former property of Michael Jackson, accused of pedophilia; or even more vaguely in Hollywood.
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These are completely invented accusations, the fruit of contemporary conspiratorial imagination, which sees pedosatanic tunnels everywhere.
Sean Combs bought a mansion in Los Angeles in 2014 with a swimming lane overlooking a private cave, but the information is public. Some sites rely on a CNN screenshot, but it has been manipulated to appear a fake banner, traces 20 minutes.
Old photos of Barack Obama with his niece
The messages accuse high-ranking politicians of being complicit in child abuse during the evenings with Diddy, while among the complainants is a 9-year-old boy, according to the prosecution’s lawyer.
Barack Obama is one of the victims of these smear operations, photo of the former American president with a little Asian girl for support. These defamatory publications, which already circulated in 2020, actually show the former Democratic president in the company of his niece.
