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No, this isn’t a video of Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs riding a motorcycle in prison
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This video predates Sean "Diddy" Combs’ Sept. 16, 2024, arrest. A Bureau of Prisons spokesperson said no inmates have "the means or ability to ride a ‘dirt bike’ or motorcycle in any Federal Bureau of Prisons facility."
Music magnate Sean "Diddy" Combs was arrested Sept. 16, 2024, on charges of racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking and transportation to engage in prostitution.
But a purported video of Combs riding a motorcycle in prison isn’t what it appears.
"Diddy riding a bike in jail," reads the text over the video in the Dec. 28 Instagram post as someone in what looks like an orange inmate uniform rides a motorbike around what looks like a prison block.
This post was flagged as part of Meta’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Meta, which owns Facebook, Instagram and Threads.)
As of Jan. 7, Combs was incarcerated at Brooklyn, New York’s Metropolitan Detention Center.
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A Federal Bureau of Prisons spokesperson told PolitiFact that "no incarcerated individual has the means or ability to ride a ‘dirt bike’ or motorcycle in any federal Bureau of Prisons facility."
The video, meanwhile, predates Combs’ arrest.
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An Instagram account shared it Feb. 24, 2024, with this caption: "Can you do this in your prison?"
The initial post didn’t mention Combs, but Dec. 27, 2024, the same account posted the same video with a different caption: "Meanwhile Diddy in jail living his best life."
We rate claims the video shows Combs riding a bike in prison False.
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Instagram post, Dec. 28, 2024
Instagram post, Dec. 30, 2024
Instagram post, Feb. 24, 2024
Instagram post, Dec. 27, 2024
Federal Bureau of Prisons inmate locator, visited Jan. 7, 2025
Statement from the Federal Bureau of Prisons, Jan. 7, 2025
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