About: http://data.cimple.eu/claim-review/47a1da7022991123da5bbec2e9fbadfd0221850fdf120999e2632675     Goto   Sponge   NotDistinct   Permalink

An Entity of Type : schema:ClaimReview, within Data Space : data.cimple.eu associated with source document(s)

AttributesValues
rdf:type
http://data.cimple...lizedReviewRating
schema:url
schema:text
  • In mid-February 2025, a rumor spread online that media mogul Oprah Winfrey was leaving the United States and moving to Italy because she couldn't be in the same country as Elon Musk, the tech entrepreneur and apparent head of the President Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency initiative. Multiple Facebook posts sharing the claim read: "Oprah Winfrey Decides to End Legendary Show, Plans to Move to Italy: 'I CAN'T LIVE IN THE US FOR THE NEXT 4 YEARS AND BREATH THE SAME AIR AS ELON MUSK.'" (Facebook user Camille Winbush) There was no evidence Winfrey ever made such a statement or revealed any plans that she was moving to Italy because of Musk. As such, we rated this claim false. We reached out to Winfrey for comment and will update this post if we learn more. We ran a Google search for the terms "Oprah Winfrey," "Elon Musk" and "Italy" and found no legitimate media reporting or statements from Winfrey directly confirming the claim. If the claim were true, it would have been headline news. Winfrey's social media posts also offered no evidence that she was planning to leave the U.S. Furthermore, Winfrey's popular daytime talk show "The Oprah Winfrey Show" concluded in 2011, after running for 25 years. She has continued conducting interviews, featuring some on her YouTube channel, and has spearheaded multiple television shows including "Oprah Prime" and "Oprah's Book Club." Some of the Facebook pages that shared the claim had a history of spreading fake news and artificial intelligence-generated images. One page, for example, shared a post claiming that a show hosted by conservative media personality Tucker Carlson would replace comedian Jimmy Kimmel's show on the ABC channel. Another page shared a post falsely claiming country singer Jason Aldean sued talk show host Whoopi Goldberg for $100 billion. The fact-checking outlet Lead Stories also looked into the claim about Winfrey moving to Italy, tracing it to an article on the website Batmalite Media. That website, according to Lead Stories, appeared to be a "content farm or spam network," and the text of the article showed signs of being the product of artificial intelligence software. Snopes previously covered a similar unfounded claim in November 2024 that Winfrey fled the U.S. after "damning" footage involving rapper Sean "Diddy" Combs leaked.
schema:mentions
schema:reviewRating
schema:author
schema:datePublished
schema:inLanguage
  • English
schema:itemReviewed
Faceted Search & Find service v1.16.115 as of Oct 09 2023


Alternative Linked Data Documents: ODE     Content Formats:   [cxml] [csv]     RDF   [text] [turtle] [ld+json] [rdf+json] [rdf+xml]     ODATA   [atom+xml] [odata+json]     Microdata   [microdata+json] [html]    About   
This material is Open Knowledge   W3C Semantic Web Technology [RDF Data] Valid XHTML + RDFa
OpenLink Virtuoso version 07.20.3238 as of Jul 16 2024, on Linux (x86_64-pc-linux-musl), Single-Server Edition (126 GB total memory, 5 GB memory in use)
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2025 OpenLink Software