A federal indictment alleging music magnate Sean “Diddy” Combs filmed intercourse acts at “freak off” events led some social media customers to revive an previous debunked conspiracy idea about former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
“FBI seize Diddy tape exhibiting Hillary Clinton killing little one at ‘freak off’ social gathering,” an Oct. 31 Instagram put up reads. It additionally says, “Seized footage from Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ infamous events allegedly characteristic Hillary Clinton in scenes that can upend the political institution in Washington D.C.” It seems to be a screenshot from a video; there’s a partially seen timestamp within the decrease left nook.
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However that is an up to date model of a years-old conspiracy idea, and there’s nonetheless no proof to help it.
The Instagram put up makes use of language equivalent to an Oct. 3 X put up by Sean Adl-Tabatabai, cofounder of the web site The Folks’s Voice. The X put up had greater than 5.5 million views as of Nov. 3.
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The identical headline and textual content appeared in an Oct. 3 article from The Folks’s Voice. PolitiFact has fact-checked a number of fabricated articles revealed on the positioning, which often publishes false or deceptive tales.
These claims recycle a baseless rumor PolitiFact already debunked: {that a} secret video exists that exhibits Clinton assaulting and killing a baby in a sacrifice ritual. This conspiracy idea began circulating in 2018 as an outgrowth of the unfounded “Pizzagate” conspiracy idea.
There was no credible proof for it then, and that’s nonetheless the case. Regardless of the viral claims, no such video has ever turned up.
Federal investigators did reportedly seize video from Combs’ properties. A September 2024 federal indictment alleged that Combs “saved movies he filmed of victims partaking in intercourse acts with industrial intercourse staff.”
The New York Put up reported it had seen dozens of movies seized by federal investigators, purportedly taken at Combs’ events, which confirmed him watching or partaking in intercourse acts between women and men.
Nonetheless, courtroom paperwork and studies by credible information shops about these movies point out neither Clinton nor the killing of a kid.
PolitiFact has investigated different false claims concerning the Combs case involving Vice President Kamala Harris, Beyoncé and Jay-Z and a supposed clone.
We fee the declare that the FBI seized a video of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton killing a baby at a Combs social gathering Pants on Fireplace!
