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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(133,040 posts)
Mon Sep 29, 2025, 06:28 PM Sep 2025

Fact Check: Simone Biles didn't respond to Charlie Kirk once calling her 'a disgrace'

Claim:

Seven-time, Olympic gold-medal-winning gymnast Simone Biles commented on conservative activist Charlie Kirk's past remarks about her after his fatal shooting in September 2025.

Rating:

Rating: False

In September 2025, online users claimed seven-time, Olympic gold-medal-winning gymnast Simone Biles posted a blog entry responding to conservative activist Charlie Kirk's past remarks about her after his fatal shooting that month.

However, searches of Bing, DuckDuckGo and Google located no news media outlets confirming Biles made any recent statements about Kirk. A check of her Facebook, Instagram and X accounts showed she did not publish a post, a blog post or other comments about Kirk, either.

This rumor — a made-up claim — appeared in numerous posts, primarily on Facebook, including in a very popular post (archived) on a Facebook page with a "page transparency" tab revealing its owners as largely residing in Vietnam. That Facebook page's post, as well as others, featured an external link to an advertisement-filled, artificial intelligence-generated blog article, where its authors earned ad revenue based on people reading their fabricated story.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/fact-check-simone-biles-didnt-020000047.html

Kirk probably wished she had responded.

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Fact Check: Simone Biles didn't respond to Charlie Kirk once calling her 'a disgrace' (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sep 2025 OP
Now this could be an instructive example! mahina Sep 2025 #1
Does he think Simone Biles took the place of far worthy and superior white person JI7 Sep 2025 #2
Who's Charlie Kirk? Gimpyknee Sep 2025 #3
Wasn't he the guy who shot up and burned a Marmon church from a boat while having a tr*mp sign in his yard rubbersole Sep 2025 #6
Thread hijack .. Simone Biles has family in the Columbus, Ohio area. Botany Sep 2025 #4
Facebook is cancer JoseBalow Sep 2025 #5

JI7

(93,254 posts)
2. Does he think Simone Biles took the place of far worthy and superior white person
Mon Sep 29, 2025, 07:14 PM
Sep 2025

And she wasn't qualified and only allowed to get where she is becsuse black women are given special privileges ?

rubbersole

(10,998 posts)
6. Wasn't he the guy who shot up and burned a Marmon church from a boat while having a tr*mp sign in his yard
Mon Sep 29, 2025, 09:13 PM
Sep 2025

..on his way to an antifa meeting where they write " I'm a left wing radical" on their bullet casings? That guy?

Botany

(76,449 posts)
4. Thread hijack .. Simone Biles has family in the Columbus, Ohio area.
Mon Sep 29, 2025, 09:02 PM
Sep 2025

I have seen her in person and she is tiny. She can’t be 5’ tall and she her family had a very
big man with them … not her NFL husband… and he looked like a very tough man who was
not there to talk to or be nice because his job was to protect Ms. Biles and her family.

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