“Oprah Winfrey “managed to hire a private firefighting team” to protect her Maui properties before the August wildfires occurred.”
Social media posts
Instagram post. Claim dated 7 Sep 2023.
PolitiFact rated thisFalse
What PolitiFact found
A spokesperson for Oprah denied that she hired a private firefighting team before the Maui wildfires in August. Oprah’s properties in Maui were at a distance from the wildfires.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 7 September 2023. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 20 September 2023, 13 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Where the claim appeared
- Instagram posthttps://www.instagram.com/p/Cw6P-A0t9Zp/
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