T.D. Jakes has broken his silence about being swept into a storm of false accusations connected to Diddy.
The pastor and media mogul revealed that a coordinated smear campaign used AI-generated content to flood platforms like YouTube with fabricated claims linking him to salacious allegations surrounding the music mogul.
In a recent interview, Jakes shared that the digital attack was not organic but engineered. “When the [rumors] first broke out, it was 44,000 bots that were released on me,” he explained. “An investigation discovered that 98 percent of them were all artificial intelligence-generated.”
The timing of the attack came as Diddy faced multiple lawsuits and criminal investigations in 2024 and 2025.
Jakes’ name appeared briefly in a lawsuit, not as a participant in any alleged wrongdoing, but as someone Diddy supposedly tried to involve for public image support.
Despite that, online videos and thumbnails began spreading rapidly. Fake arrest clips, altered footage, and images falsely showing Jakes at parties connected to Diddy went viral. None of the material had any verified backing or legal basis.
Jakes made it clear he has no connection to the criminal claims tied to Combs.
“That’s kinda water under the bridge,” he said. “If there were anything there, the FBI would have been in it. It’s like when I had my health scare, within seconds, it was all over the world. You wouldn’t have to find it on Instagram. You wouldn’t have to find it on YouTube. You would find it on the six o’clock news.”
His legal team filed motions aimed at YouTube and Google, requesting information that could help uncover the identities of the individuals or networks responsible for the misinformation campaign.
Jakes said this situation proves a larger issue that affects many high-profile Black figures. “The other thing that it really proved to me, to Oprah, to Denzel, to all the people, is that it’s everybody,” he said. “It goes along with the turf.”
He also criticized the way people now consume information. “We have got to stop getting our information from TikTok,” Jakes warned, emphasizing how easily falsehoods gain momentum online.
While the false stories continue to circulate, Jakes is pushing forward with legal efforts to hold those responsible accountable. He made it clear that he had no part in the events falsely linked to his name.
