On August 23, 2023, a Facebook post about actor Jim Carrey and Hollywood went viral, stating that Carrey exposed the Hollywood elite. According to the Post, in an interview in 2018, Jim Carrey said that children are eaten at Christmas in Hollywood.
In 2018-2020, Russian-language Facebook users voiced the same claim as well (1, 2).
The claim that Jim Carrey accused Hollywood of cannibalism is false. No such statement can be found in reliable open sources. The statement, in fact, originates from a conspiracy website.
The statement in the name of Jim Carrey about Hollywood and eating children was actively circulated in 2017-2018 and has been verified by the American fact-checking organization Leadstories. Newspunch.com was cited as the primary source of information, but the article is currently only available in the online archive. According to the article, in 2017, Jim Carrey said during a Q&A session after a screening of the documentary Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond in New York that Lucifer’s servants in Hollywood make Christmas the darkest holiday of the year and eat children.
In fact, Jim Carrey did not make such a statement, and it is not even found in open sources.
Newspunch is a disinformation and conspiracy theory website that publishes fabricated news to mislead people. The site was originally known as YourNewsWire. According to Poynter.org, back in 2018, about 80 fake articles were detected on the site. The articles published on the site have been checked by “Myth Detector” several times in the past years, including some articles related to Hollywood:
- Did Mel Gibson Call Hollywood a Shelter for Cannibals? (in Georgian)
- Conspiracy about American Senators Kidnapping a 3-Year-Old in Portugal
In the US, the group named QAnon has been amplifying conspiracy theories about the torture of children. The supporters of the group have been declared a domestic terrorist threat by the FBI because citizens encouraged by the group have caused riots on several occasions. The conspiracy theory about “fluid taken from the body of infants” is unfounded, see:
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Facebook user “Nino Bregadze,” who is the author of the post about Jim Carrey, has published false information a number of times in the past.
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