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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(129,173 posts) Mon Sep 29, 2025, 07:28 PM Monday

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 Monday OP

Now this could be an instructive example! mahina Monday #1

Does he think Simone Biles took the place of far worthy and superior white person JI7 Monday #2

Who's Charlie Kirk? Gimpyknee Monday #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 Monday #6

Thread hijack .. Simone Biles has family in the Columbus, Ohio area. Botany Monday #4

Facebook is cancer JoseBalow Monday #5

mahina

(20,082 posts)

1. Now this could be an instructive example!

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Mon Sep 29, 2025, 08:10 PM

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JI7

(92,714 posts)

2. Does he think Simone Biles took the place of far worthy and superior white person

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Mon Sep 29, 2025, 08:14 PM

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

Gimpyknee

(743 posts)

3. Who's Charlie Kirk?

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Mon Sep 29, 2025, 09:52 PM

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rubbersole

(10,633 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

Reply to Gimpyknee (Reply #3)

Mon Sep 29, 2025, 10:13 PM

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

Botany

(75,398 posts)

4. Thread hijack .. Simone Biles has family in the Columbus, Ohio area.

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Mon Sep 29, 2025, 10:02 PM

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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.

JoseBalow

(8,507 posts)

5. Facebook is cancer

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Mon Sep 29, 2025, 10:08 PM

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