Conspiracies claim John McAfee stored data in collapsed Miami condo. Fact Check

Ever since his apparent suicide in a prison cell, John McAfee – the founder of McAfee Corp – has been the subject of many conspiracy theories attempting to link him to Jeffrey Epstein and the general Q conspiracy movement that claims the United States and the world is secretly run by an extensive network of satanic pedophiles.

While there has been a number of [mostly unproven] claims levelled against McAfee, one such rumour asserts McAfee was hiding a large amount of incriminating evidence in the Miami condo that collapsed on June 24th 2021.

The rumour is spreading primarily in the form of a screenshotted tweet allegedly made by McAfee on June 8th 2021.

If anything ever happens to me, please know that the 31TB of files I have are located on hard drives in my condo near 88th Street and Collins Avenue just north of Miami Beach

Conspiracy theorists often attempt to link the latest disaster headlines into their ever-expanding web of theories, and this appears to be the latest case. Ignoring the plethora of other claims made surrounding McAfee, this specific set of theories makes three broad claims

One – that the Miami condo was deliberately destroyed.
Two – that John McAfee was hiding digital information there.
Three – that one of the condos belonged to John McAfee’s son Pat McAfee.

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As such, the theory – fundamentally – claims that John McAfee was storing evidence of corruption (or other crimes) digitally, and subsequently posted on Twitter the address of where that evidence was located, and that in turn resulted in covert forces destroying the entire building and killing [what will likely be] many dozens of people.

All three points are wholly lacking in any supporting evidence.

Regarding point one, the claim that the Miami condo was destroyed intentionally is based merely on online speculation in conspiracy circles on social media. There has been zero evidence presented to support the claim and authorities on the scene currently claim there is no evidence of foul play.

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Regarding point two, the tweet circulating (pictured above) does not appear to have been made by John McAfee. The tweet does not appear on his Twitter timeline nor any archive services or any sign of the tweet on any caching services, nor any reputable sources showing anyone retweeting (or quoting verbatim) the tweet, which would be inevitable given the high number of followers John McAfee accumulated had the tweet been genuine.
It’s also of questionable logic had McAfee been storing sensitive information about corruption that he would have publicly released the exact address of where he was storing such content onto Twitter.
(McAfee did make a claim about having 31TB of information concerning corruption back in 2019, which likely spawned the above fake tweet – however this was not connected to the condo collapse in Miami.)

Regarding point three – John McAfee does not have a son called Pat McAfee – at least not officially. He has claimed to have fathered many dozens of children in the past but we cannot find any reputable connection to John McAfee and anyone called Pat McAfee, and John McAfee has never made any public statement about a son called Pat McAfee. Additionally we have not seen any evidence that any of the condos that was involved in the collapse was registered under the name Pat McAfee and no evidence has been offered.

There is no evidence linking John McAfee to the Miami condo collapse. We rank these claims as false.