Social media users have shared images and videos from a Disney+ Christmas miniseries with context missing. The content, taken from “The Santa Clauses”, a 2022 three-part comedy created by U.S. producer Jack Burditt, has been edited to suggest Disney is promoting satanic worship to children.
Social media users made the claim by sharing either a cropped video clip (here) or a screenshot from a single scene where a group of children, each holding a placard with a letter of the alphabet, are seen standing in a formation whereby the placards together read: “We love you Satan” (here) and Twitter (here).
The tweet accompanying the cropped clip reads: “From the new @Disney Christmas mini series The Clauses. They not hiding any longer. They want your kids & so does Satan. Stop supporting this demonic network. This should disgust all parents.”
Reuters found the scene in episode three of the miniseries, titled “Into the Wobbly Wood” (here), which was released on Nov. 23, 2022.
The full version of the scene shows that the children’s formation was intended as a joke. Tim Allen’s character, Santa Claus, is seen asking the children to check their spelling before rearranging the message to read: “We love you Santa.”
VERDICT
Missing context. The ‘Satan’ message was a joke; the complete scene shows children rearranging the letters to spell “Santa” correctly.
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