Celeb Jihad is a
website known for sharing leaked private (often sexual) videos and photos as well as faked ones of celebrities as a form of jihad satire.[1][2][3][4][5]The Daily Beast describes it as a "satirical celebrity gossip website."[3]
The website describes itself as "a satirical website containing published rumors, speculation, assumptions, opinions, fiction as well as factual information".[6] The site lists its owner as "Durka Durka Mohammad" a fictitious terrorist whose goal is "destroying the poisonous
celebrity culture" of America.[7]
The website has participated in a series of releases of images and video, generally believed to have been stolen from hacked cell phones, dubbed "
Fappening 2.0".
In November 2017 Celeb Jihad released naked images of
WWE divas
Saraya-Jade Bevis,
JoJo Offerman, and
Maria Kanellis, the latest in a long series of similar leaks of WWE celebrity images.[9][10] The website has also released fake nude photos and videos of celebrities, including doctored photos and videos of
Meghan Markle,
Taylor Swift,
Ariana Grande,
Selena Gomez,
Megan Fox and
Kate Upton. In January 2024,
Taylor Swift stated that she would be considering legal action against the owners of the website after AI generated photos and videos of her performing
sexual acts while wearing attire related to the
Kansas City Chiefs were posted on the site as well as other social media platforms such as
X.[11]
^Husain, Taneem. "Can Islam Be Satirized? Celeb Jihad's "Explosive Celebrity Gossip" and the Divide between Islam and Mainstream American Culture." American Studies, vol. 56 no. 3, 2018, pp. 69-82. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/ams.2018.0003