isrepresentations, encapsulating purported statements to falsely speculate and attack others, including Bishop Jakes,” she said.
Hora did not immediately comment on the Snopes report.
According to a separate December statement from Derrick Williams, executive vice president of T.D. Jakes Entertainment, Williams and Jakes stopped by a birthday celebration for Combs, who is a co-founder of Revolt Media & TV, which had announced in 2021 that it would feature a sermon series hosted by Jakes.
“We both greeted the family, Bishop Jakes recorded a brief celebratory birthday video and left immediately to take our other scheduled meetings,” Williams said of the event featuring Combs, who has resigned as Revolt’s chair. “Any accusation to the contrary is wholly unsubstantiated, unverified and false.”
Combs, whose lawyer has declared him innocent in the wake of federal agents’ searches of his property, was recently sued by Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones, a music producer who accuses the music mogul of sex trafficking and other wrongdoing.
The suit cites Jakes in passing as someone who the rapper hoped would help improve his image, but the minister is not among the defendants in the March filing.
The Snopes report is not the first to highlight the role of artificial intelligence in online misinformation about Jakes.
In late January NBC News stated that “videos have implicated figures like Jakes in the allegations against Combs without evidence and used manipulated media to depict the celebrities engaging in lewd acts and exaggerated displays of emotion in video thumbnails.”
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