A rumour is circulating recently that Porn star Mia Khalifa’s income was frozen by PornHub and donated to Israel because of her support of Hamas.
Several verified twitter accounts, including Megh Updates (“@MeghUpdates“) shared the video with the caption “Porn star Mia Khalifa’s income frozen by PornHub and donated to Israel aid funds, due to her support of Hamas….”. The twitter post has received an about 8.9M views and more than 6.5k reshares.
Porn star Mia Khalifa's income frozen by PornHub and donated to Israel aid funds, due to her support of Hamas…. pic.twitter.com/3MGZRoTk8O
— Megh Updates 🚨™ (@MeghUpdates) October 15, 2023
Also, some other verified profiles, including OSINT Updates (“@OsintUpdates“), Baba Banaras (“@RealBababanaras“), Islam Uddin (“@Coach_iu“), Times Algebra (“@TimesAlgebraIND“), Jake Shields (“@jakeshieldsajj”), The Jaipur Dialogues (“@JaipurDialogues“) and Mr Sinha (“@MrSinha_“) claimed the same and shared their views on twitter. The incident has been widely spread across the social media as the influencers began to claim the same. The archive post can be read from above.
Truth about the Incident : Fact- Check
In actuality, the assertions are unfounded and fraudulent.
Pornhub has not been shown to have donated to Israel, and Mia Khalifa’s earnings have been blocked She hasn’t reported having her account frozen. There is no mention of donations to Israel on the Pornhub Care page. She was, however dropped by Playboy for Making “Disgusting and Reprehensible” Remarks About the Hamas Attack on Israel.
We visited VARIETY, who also said that the porn actor was fired by Playboy due to her comments on the situation in the Middle East.
Mia Khalifa has been removed by Playboy from its list of OnlyFans-like creators after she made remarks that were deemed to be “celebrating” Hamas’ deadly attacks on Israel.
The company sent out a message to users saying, “We are writing today to let you know of our decision to terminate Playboy’s relationship with Mia Khalifa, including deleting Mia’s Playboy channel on our creator platform” (via Daily Mail). “Over the past few days, Mia has made disgusting and reprehensible comments celebrating Hamas’ attacks on Israel and the murder of innocent men, women and children. At Playboy, we encourage free expression and constructive political debate, but we have a zero tolerance policy for hate speech. We expect Mia to understand that her words and actions have consequences.”
“If you can look at the situation in Palestine and not be on the side of Palestinians, then you are on the wrong side of apartheid and history will show that in time,” Khalifa wrote in one of her posts on X, or Twitter, in response to Hamas’ attacks on Israelis. On Oct 8, she wrote, “I can’t believe the Zionist apartheid regime is being brought down by guerrilla fighters in fake Gucci shirts — the biopics of these moments better reflect that.” Khalifa also wrote on the platform, “Can someone please tell the freedom fighters in Palestine to flip their phones and film horizontal.”
Mia Khalifa’s page is no longer available on Playboy’s website.
D-Intent’s Fact-checking Results:
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— D-Intent Data (@dintentdata) October 15, 2023
ANALYSIS: Fake
FACT: News is being circulated claiming that PornHub froze porn star #MiaKhalifa's income and donated it to #Israel due to her support towards #Hamas. The fact is that the claims are fake and baseless. (1/3) pic.twitter.com/1kRXWlXlr0
Intent:
Propaganda accounts are circulating invented claims about the porn star, Mia Khalifa, who is a Hamas sympathizer because of her Lebanese origin & had the history of being anti-India too.
Conclusion:
Claim : It’s being claimed that PornHub stopped paying porn star Mia Khalifa because she supported Hamas, and they gave her money to Israel instead.
Fact : There is no proof that Pornhub has made donations to Israel and Mia Khalifa’s income has been frozen.
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