{"id":1402104,"date":"2022-03-26T18:14:42","date_gmt":"2022-03-26T22:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1402104"},"modified":"2022-03-26T18:14:49","modified_gmt":"2022-03-26T22:14:49","slug":"fact-check-were-108-disney-world-employees-arrested-for-child-sex-trafficking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-were-108-disney-world-employees-arrested-for-child-sex-trafficking\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Were 108 Disney World Employees Arrested For Child Sex Trafficking?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-check-were-108-disney-world-employees-arrested-for-child-sex-trafficking%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1402104&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>A post <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/d2Dl2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on Twitter<\/a> claims 108 employees of Walt Disney World were arrested for \u201cadolescent sex trafficking.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">.Damn 108 of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WaltDisneyWorld?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@WaltDisneyWorld<\/a> employees were arrested for adolescent sex trafficking WTF is really going on \ud83d\ude33<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 .Meka kids auntie \u2665\ufe0f (@TommGirl91) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TommGirl91\/status\/1504815358682800131?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 18, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><span>Verdict: Misleading<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Florida police recently arrested 108 people in a human trafficking sting operation, four of whom were found to be employees of Disney, according to the Polk County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, Walt Disney World in Florida was the most visited place in the U.S. and employed 77,000 people, the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/business-lifestyle-entertainment-travel-arts-and-entertainment-071c80ae6c0dabe6e1afbc3b59240131\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Associated Press<\/a> reported. Tens of thousands were laid off during the pandemic but many have since returned, according to the resort\u2019s official <a href=\"https:\/\/disneyparks.disney.go.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/more-live-entertainment-disney-character-experiences-and-indiana-jones-returning-to-walt-disney-world-resort-this-fall\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A March 18 tweet claims 108 of the resort\u2019s employees were recently arrested for child sex trafficking. \u201c<span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">Damn 108 of <\/span><span class=\"r-18u37iz\">@WaltDisneyWorld <\/span>employees were arrested for adolescent sex trafficking WTF is really going on,\u201d reads the tweet.<\/p>\n<p>This claim is misleading. It appears to stem from a recent human trafficking sting conducted by the Polk County Sheriff\u2019s Office in Florida, dubbed \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.polksheriff.org\/news-investigations\/2022\/03\/16\/polk-county-sheriff-s-office-arrests-108-during-six-day-human-trafficking-campaign-operation-march-sadness-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Operation March Sadness 2<\/a>.\u201d The operation led to the arrest of 108 people, four of whom were identified as Disney employees, according to an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BXwTDB_K8_c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">announcement<\/a> made by the sheriff\u2019s office. Credible news outlets such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/florida-human-trafficking-sting-disney-employees-former-judge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CBS News<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/four-disney-employees-arrested-florida-human-trafficking-child-predato-rcna20422\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NBC News<\/a> reported on the sting and those who were caught up in it.<\/p>\n<p>While 108 people were arrested during the operation, there are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=108+Disney+employees+arrested+trafficking&#038;oq=108+Disney+employees+arrested+trafficking&#038;aqs=chrome..69i57j69i60j69i61l2.13095j0j7&#038;sourceid=chrome&#038;ie=UTF-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">no reports<\/a> indicating all of the persons arrested were employees of Disney. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2020\/06\/05\/fact-check-ellen-degeneres-house-arrest-child-sex-trafficking-hoax\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: No, Ellen DeGeneres Isn\u2019t Under House Arrest For Child Sex Trafficking)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time Disney has been the subject of misinformation. Last year, <a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2021\/02\/19\/fact-check-disney-ceo-bob-chapek-jail-abusing-children\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Check Your Fact<\/a> debunked a viral claim that alleged Disney CEO Bob Chapek was incarcerated for child abuse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A post shared on Twitter claims 108 employees of Walt Disney World were arrested for \u201cadolescent sex trafficking.\u201d .Damn 108 of @WaltDisneyWorld employees were arrested for adolescent sex trafficking WTF<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1402104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1402104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1402104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1402104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1402104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}