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

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in General Factchecking by Genius (47.6k points)
Disney bought Jeffrey Epstein's island to build a theme park.
https://mousetrapnews.com/the-walt-disney-company-buys-epstein-island/
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by Newbie (260 points)
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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/
by Newbie (240 points)
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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/
by Newbie (240 points)
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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.
by Newbie (240 points)
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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.
by Newbie (200 points)
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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.

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by Novice (570 points)
I think this website is a load of junk. There is no way the island would be sold let alone disney buying it.

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/viral-video-claiming-disney-bought-192000032.html?guccounter=1

This is a rumor started from TikTok. Looking at the article I already knew there was zero way it would be real.
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by Newbie (250 points)
Based on the information I researched this is not true at all. There are no valid articles or sources validating this information. All other articles are just speculation. If anything there is an article from Yahoo Tech claiming this is false.

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/viral-video-claiming-disney-bought-192000032.html
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by Newbie (240 points)

Under the article many people deem the article repopsted and fake.  A NPR article from a month ago says the island was sold for $60 million to financier Stephen Deckoff who is not related to Disney.

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by Newbie (240 points)
This is misinformation. In the article they quote "an executive" without giving a name to this so-called "executive". There was also no sources provided confirming Disney purchased Epstein's island.
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by Newbie (250 points)
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by Novice (540 points)
This statement is misinformation. The original source that made this claim, Mouse Trap News, is a Disney news parody site. Because of this, information coming from Mouse Trap News should not be considered true.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/disney-bought-epsteins-island/
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by Newbie (320 points)
There is no legit information or facts that make me believe that this claim is true. There is no proof of Disney wanting to buy or even trying to purchase Epstein's island. This is misinformation.
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by Newbie (220 points)
This is a false claim because there is no evidence that Walt Disney is planning to buy Jeffrey Epstein's island to honor him. It is clear to see this is information because Disney has never done anything to honor Jeffrey Epstein, especially after everything that came out about him taking underage children to that island. Also with a simple google search, there are many articles debunking the claim that was made by MouseTrapNews. The article says that Walt Disney bought the island for 3 million dollars, but there are no other reports of Disney spending any amount. The island was purchased by Stephen Deckoff, who is not associated with Walt Disney, debunking this article.
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by Newbie (240 points)
Within this artical, it claimed that expert relaters valued the island at around 3 billion dollars. this is an example of mis/disinformation because the real value of the house was held at 125 billion and sold recently for 60 million.
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by Newbie (240 points)

This statement is false a report from Yahoo news disproves this 

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/viral-video-claiming-disney-bought-192000032.html

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