Viral social media posts shortly tried to hyperlink rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs to main politicians shortly after the musician was arrested Sept. 16 and charged with racketeering conspiracy and intercourse trafficking in New York.
First, we debunked a viral picture that claimed to point out a photograph of Combs and Vice President Kamala Harris. Now, a viral video claims to point out Combs in a one-on-one interview with former President Donald Trump.
“Are you able to consider this by no means (seen) earlier than video of #Trump and #Diddy,” the caption of a Sept. 19 TikTok video mentioned. The video additionally contains the quilt picture of “Orange Is The New Black,” a well-liked Netflix collection about life in a girls’s jail.
TikTok recognized the declare within the video as a part of its efforts to counter inauthentic, deceptive or false content material. (Learn extra about PolitiFact’s partnership with TikTok.)
One commenter puzzled if the video was artificially generated. Though video clips are actual and never computer-generated, they’re deceptive as a result of they’re from two completely different interviews — carried out seven years aside.
This video doesn’t depict an actual dialog between Trump and Combs. It combines two completely different interviews of Trump and Combs with journalist Charlie Rose and aired on PBS. The scenes with Trump are edited from a November 1992 interview with Rose; these with Combs are edited from an August 1999 interview with Rose. Phrases and phrases from completely different elements of every interview are additionally stitched collectively to create coherent sentences.
This viral video originated from a YouTuber named “Jonas Hollerup Helle”. The video was posted Aug. 27, just a few weeks earlier than Combs was arrested. Its description learn: “Conversations that by no means came about between individuals who by no means met. Created utilizing present interviews.”
We price the declare that this video reveals Trump and Combs in dialog Pants on Hearth!
