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Fact Check: Sylvester Stallone Rejects Disney’s $500 Million ‘Woke’ Movie Offer?
Actor Sylvester Stallone rejected a $500 million “woke” movie offer from Disney and said, “I don’t want ‘wokeness’ in my life.”
website SpaceXMania.com published an article that said “Rocky” and “Creed” actor Sylvester Stallone had rejected a $500 million “woke” movie offer from Disney.
The story of the article read, “‘Don’t Want Wokeness In My Life’: Sylvester Stallone Rejects Disney’s $500 Million ‘Woke’ Movie Offer.”
However, this story was not true. SpaceXMania.com describes its output as being satirical in nature, both on its “About Us” page and as a label above articles.
This same rumor about Stallone purportedly rejecting a “woke” movie offer from Disney because of its “wokeness” also appeared on esspots.com, lifestory25.com and usacommunity.live.
The latter two websites did not contain any labels that indicated the content was satirical in nature.
This rumor was somewhat similar to another one previously posted in March 2023 by The Dunning-Kruger Times website. That rumor didn’t mention Disney, but did feature the headline, “Sylvester Stallone Makes It Clear: ‘No Woke Crap’ On His New Movie Set.”
The Times’ website is part of the America’s Last Line of Defense network, which also features content that is said to be satirical in nature.