Does a photo show that Kamala Harris and Sean "Diddy" Combs posed together at a party? No, that's not true: This photo has been edited. The original photo from 2019 was taken at Combs' 50th birthday party, where Combs was standing next to fashion designer Misa Hylton. In the edited version of the photo, Hylton's face has been replaced with Harris' face. The altered photo bears a discreet watermark "ALLOD" and a branded disclaimer in the lower left corner, identifying this as satire from the website America's Last Line of Defense.
The photo appeared in a post (archived here) on Facebook published by America's Last Line Of Defense on September 30, 2024. The post was captioned:
The Harris campaign has spent millions trying to scrub any pictures of her and Sean "P. Diddy" Combs from the internet.
It would be a shame if this got spread around.
This is what the post looked like on Facebook at the time of writing:
(Source: Facebook screenshot taken on Tue Oct 15 14:35:08 2024 UTC)
The first comment under the image from the ALLOD page manager on Facebook read:
America's Last Line Of Defense
Don't worry about authenticating the image, patriots. It's not real. I totally Photoshopped it. Not that it will matter, but I figured you should know. If you shared this unironically, there's a good chance you'll believe anything we tell you.
God Bless America.
The flagship of the ALLOD network of trollery.
Nothing on this page is real.
A reverse image search for the ALLOD photo on Tineye.com returned results with the unaltered photo featuring Misa Hylton. One place where the photo appeared (pictured below) was a People article (archived here), which credited the photo to KEVIN MAZUR/GETTY. The photo's caption on the Getty Images website reads:
Sean Combs 50th Birthday Bash Presented By Ciroc Vodka
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - DECEMBER 14: (L-R) Sean Combs and Misa Hylton attend Sean Combs 50th Birthday Bash presented by Ciroc Vodka on December 14, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Sean Combs)
(Source: People screenshot taken on Tue Oct 15 15:54:09 2024 UTC)
Wonder if she was black, or Indian that night?
not photoshoped.
Kamala's team has spent more than $5 million having images of her with Sean "P. Diddy" Combs bleached from the internet.
It would be such a shame if this made the rounds:
ALLOD
The site is part of the America's Last Line of Defense network of satire websites run by self-professed liberal troll Christopher Blair from Maine along with a loose confederation of friends and allies. Blair runs several websites and Facebook pages with visible satire disclaimers everywhere. They mostly publish made-up stories with headlines specifically created to trigger Republicans, conservatives and evangelical Christians into angrily sharing or commenting on the story on Facebook without actually reading the full article, exposing them to mockery and ridicule by fans of the sites and pages.
Every site in the network has an About page that reads (in part):
About Satire
Before you complain and decide satire is synonymous with "comedy":sat·ire
ˈsaˌtī(ə)r
noun
The use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.Everything on this website is fiction. It is not a lie and it is not fake news because it is not real. If you believe that it is real, you should have your head examined. Any similarities between this site's pure fantasy and actual people, places, and events are purely coincidental and all images should be considered altered and satirical. See above if you're still having an issue with that satire thing.
Articles from Blair's sites frequently get copied by "real" fake news sites that omit the satire disclaimer and other hints the stories are fake. One of the most persistent networks of such sites is run by a man from Pakistan named Kashif Shahzad Khokhar (aka "DashiKashi"), who has spammed hundreds of such stolen stories into conservative and right-wing Facebook pages in order to profit from the ad revenue.
Additional Lead Stories fact checks of claims about Sean Combs can be found here.
Other Lead Stories fact checks of claims concerning Kamala Harris can be read here.
Lead Stories fact checks of claims from ALLOD are here.
