Taylor Swift, Travis Kelce, Bono, Or Your Favorite Celeb Did NOT Donate $5 million To Help Iran Elementary School Destroyed In Airstrike
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By Alan Duke
Published on March 2, 2026.
The false claim that celebrities including Taylor Swift, Travis Kelce, and Neil Diamond, Eminem, Coco Gauff, or any other celebrities donated $5 million to provide emergency relief and medical aid following the tragic elementary school strike in southern Iran is not true. The false claim was made in Facebook posts after the U.S. and Israel launched missile attacks on Iran on February 28, 2026. The fake donations were distributed by a spam factory based in Vietnam that uses artificial intelligence tools to publish fake articles promoted by Facebook pages also managed from Vietnam. The claims are made in nearly identical posts on Facebook fan pages, including a post by the Chiefs Empire page on February 1, 2020. The Vietnam connection is significant as fact-checkers have identified a major source of AI-generated false stories coming from a single operation based in that country.
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