A YouTube video posted on Sept. 26, 2023, accurately reported that the Obamas were "panicking" because of Melissa Rivers' "confession."
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On Sept. 26, 2023, the purported celebrity gossip YouTube channel Drama Bay published a video that salaciously claimed the Obamas were "panicking" about a "confession" Melissa Rivers had made that would "destroy their reputation."
Melissa Rivers is the daughter of the late comedian Joan Rivers, who died in 2014. A conspiracy theory has spread on social media platforms that claims Joan Rivers was killed because she said that Michelle Obama was a trans woman and former president Barack Obama was gay. The claim has been fact-checked by PolitiFact and found to be false.
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The clip's title read, "The Obamas PANICS AS Melissa Rivers Confession Might Destroy Their Reputation!!!."The video had been viewed over 1,600 times on Drama Bay's YouTube channel at the time of this writing.
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The YouTube video also circulated on TikTok, with three TikTok posts featuring the YouTube video, collectively gaining more than 279,000 views at the time of this writing.
But no such "confession" was ever made by Melissa Rivers. The description box for the video included this crucial disclaimer:
Disclaimer: Content might be gossip, rumors, exaggerated or indirectly besides the truth. Viewer advised to do own research before forming their opinion. Content might be opinionated.
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