Question

Disney bought Jeffrey Epstein's island to build a theme park.

Comments

This statement is clearly untrue. I have surfed through this website time and time again and have seen in their "about" section of the website. The first paragraph in this website states that "Mouse Trap News is the world’s best satire and parody site. We write fake stories about Disney Parks stuff. From Disney Park announcements to Disney Hotel and resort news to made-up Disney partnerships, you can be assured that anything you read here is not true, real, or accurate, but it is fun." Aside from this, there is no evidence about the fact that Disney had even considering buying Jeffrey Epstein's Island to build a theme park. In fact, another website had also fact-checked this and proved that this was wrong the second this "fact" or "news" had been released.

https://mousetrapnews.com/about/

https://www.reuters.com/fact-check/article-about-disney-buying-epstein-island-is-satire-2024-04-22/

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This claim is completely untrue. Immediately after doing extra research, the first few things to pop up on a google search claim that this is complete satire and untruthful. This is a pretty recent article and it is clearly trying to use clickbait to jump on the Epstein island story that surfaced around the time of the article. One major thing that stood out when looking at this article is that there is no name given, only the news source that posted this claim is seen, and the quality of the post seems very low. After doing more than just a google search, I found that both Snoops, and USA Today both wrote this article off as satire. USA Today claims that this is from a satirical website, however "The Facebook post is an example of what could be called stolen satire." as they say. The satire seems to come from the fact that the allegations on what happened on Epstein Island are horrific, which is just the opposite of a Disney park. There are false claims in this article as well, most prominent one having to be that Epstein was "great" and has now passed away. While the headline does in fact aline with the article, this seems like just a joke of a post, only used to make people laugh that have a twisted sense of humor.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2024/04/12/epstein-island-sold-to-disney-satire-fact-check/73292777007/
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/disney-bought-epsteins-island/

https://mousetrapnews.com/the-walt-disney-company-buys-epstein-island/

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Yeah, and there are many different websites that back the claim up that this is false, such as USA Today, and Snopes. This is completely satirical and suppose to be a joke, however Facebook users see this claim without the original website, which is known for posting fake news, which is why so many people actually believed this.

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That is a really good point about social media. Things that are clear jokes can be taken out of context and then people online will think that the information they receive is true. This is why misinformation spreads so easily. Social media makes it so easy for posts to go up that can spread so much falseness.

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While reading this article, I can easily tell that this is entirely satire even down to the "evidence" with who the sources talked to. The website that was used, MouseTrap News also has many other satirical articles that are meant to be a joke. There is no real evidence and no other sources that back up its outlandish claims, thus leading the article to clearly be fake. But, because this article was posted on social media, the people were quick to believe it without really reading the contents in the article.

Answer 1

This claim is false Based off of Disney’s whole brand and need to keep a clean and family friendly reputation. Epstein’s Island is the last place Disney would build a theme park for family’s and children.

Answer 2

Disney made no purchase or bid to buy Jeffrey Epstein's islands. Much less any claims that they will be purchasing them for a theme park. The Islands were purchased in May 2023 by billionaire Stephon Deckoff, who plans to build "a world-class destination" on the islands. If you read the article that claims this you can see there is no official sources, the "executives" and "top real estate appraisers" have no attributions at all and there is no proof at all that these are real quotes.

Likely Misinformation.

Jeffrey Epstein's two private islands will be turned into a resort : NPR

Answer 3

Disney has not bought Jeffrey Epstein's island. MSN wrote an article that the islands have not been bought by Disney and that the islands are owned by a financier who is going to build a resort. They talk about how the link above form mouse trap news is not a reliable news source. They back it up by saying that Disney does in fact own an island but not these islands.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/no-disney-didnt-buy-jeffrey-epsteins-island-claim-started-as-satire-fact-check/ar-BB1lwGc4

Answer 4

This is not true or a trustworthy website. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2024/04/12/epstein-island-sold-to-disney-satire-fact-check/73292777007/

Answer 5

This article is false. When reporting on an event, especially one as big as this one, make sure to thoroughly research it and make sure multiple sources are reporting the same information. I cannot find any information on this topic outside of this article. Along with this, multiple fact checkers on other websites say this story is not true.

Answer 6

The website that this article is published on is a satire website. Their website states "Mouse Trap News is the world's best satire and parody site. We write fake stories about Disney Parks stuff. From Disney Park announcements to Disney Hotel and resort news to made-up Disney partnerships, you can be assured that anything you read here is not true, real, or accurate, but it is fun. So technically our slogan The Moused Trusted Name in Disney News isn't true, but we thought it was creative and funny, so we are running with it." This is a fake article from a satire website. 

https://mousetrapnews.com/about/

Answer 7

After further research, other news sources have revealed that this claim is not true and started as a satire claim. According to USA Today, the claim that Disney bought Epstein's island false, and MouseTrap News is not to be considered a reliable news source. To check out USA Today's fact checking, visit: 

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2024/04/12/epstein-island-sold-to-disney-satire-fact-check/73292777007/

Answer 8

This is not true. This article was written with disinformation and made from social media sources. The blog "MouseTrapNews" has been fact-checked numerous times for spreading misleading or wrong news. I found an article from Matt Novak on Yahoo News that debunks the news and goes to show that it was just a rumor on TikTok and X.

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/viral-video-claiming-disney-bought-192000032.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAACL2_oHaoHKkaC46l1EcKiOLNMl2vA3opQOVCwTc5sPrqexMUyYJJXKEPHNQq_-2BDJSJrgd7p3O4f9UGGOcydiPZ5VUJz7EQPzDC29I1nUFxKRXO7tJVZWKDrPOgDYKdqKQ1XT67-EirU5jbnKOC705b_HaJtXvYvgflRSbH9A7 (link to the Yahoo news debunk).

Answer 9

This is a false claim.  The link draws back to MouseTrapNews which is not a credible source.  If it was a government website then it would be a credible source, but doing more research it comes from X which can be uploaded by anyone.  https://twitter.com/mousetrapnews/status/1778058874400002470

Answer 10

This is false. The website "Mouse Trap News" where this claim was posted, is a satirical website. According to the website, "Mouse Trap News is the world’s best satire and parody site. We write fake stories about Disney Parks stuff." There is no evidence at all that Disney has bought Jeffrey Epstein's island to build a theme park.