Debunking Misinformation: Exploring Taylor Swift, Travis Kelce, and Presidential Politics
Get the Facts: Debunking misinformation around Taylor Swift, Travis Kelce and presidential politics
In a week filled with misinformation, politics, sports, a celebrity love story and wild conspiracy theories have intertwined, prompting the Department of Defense to address the situation.Music icon Taylor Swift, along with her NFL superstar boyfriend Travis Kelce, has found herself embroiled in presidential politics and viral social media conspiracy theories.Claims have surfaced that Swift has been involved in Pentagon psychological operations. The Pentagon has categorically denied these allegations, telling Hearst Television’s Washington News Bureau, “We know all too well the dangers of conspiracy theories, so to set the record straight: Taylor Swift is not part of a DOD psychological operation. Period.”Rumors are also circulating on social media that Swift and Kelce are part of a secret plot to help get President Joe Biden re-elected. Additionally, there are claims that the success of the Kansas City Chiefs was rigged to aid this plan.Former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy also weighed in on the matter.”Who is going to win the Super Bowl…” Ramaswamy wrote on X, and seemingly tied Kelce to a “major presidential endorsement…coming from an artificially culturally propped-up couple.”The Chiefs and Kelce have made their fourth Super Bowl trip in five years. They won in 2020 and last year. The team’s success is not a result of any conspiracy, but simply because they’re a good team.Swift endorsing Biden wouldn’t be a new development. She did endorse him in 2020.
In a week filled with misinformation, politics, sports, a celebrity love story and wild conspiracy theories have intertwined, prompting the Department of Defense to address the situation.
Music icon Taylor Swift, along with her NFL superstar boyfriend Travis Kelce, has found herself embroiled in presidential politics and viral social media conspiracy theories.
Claims have surfaced that Swift has been involved in Pentagon psychological operations.
The Pentagon has categorically denied these allegations, telling Hearst Television’s Washington News Bureau, “We know all too well the dangers of conspiracy theories, so to set the record straight: Taylor Swift is not part of a DOD psychological operation. Period.”
Rumors are also circulating on social media that Swift and Kelce are part of a secret plot to help get President Joe Biden re-elected. Additionally, there are claims that the success of the Kansas City Chiefs was rigged to aid this plan.
Former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy also weighed in on the matter.
“Who is going to win the Super Bowl…” Ramaswamy wrote on X, and seemingly tied Kelce to a “major presidential endorsement…coming from an artificially culturally propped-up couple.”
The Chiefs and Kelce have made their fourth Super Bowl trip in five years. They won in 2020 and last year. The team’s success is not a result of any conspiracy, but simply because they’re a good team.
Swift endorsing Biden wouldn’t be a new development. She did endorse him in 2020.