Detroit-born rapper Lizzo, appeared Oct. 19 at a marketing campaign rally in Michigan, encouraging individuals within the battleground state to help Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris.
In individual, attendees applauded Lizzo’s temporary speech. On-line, some social media customers stated Lizzo’s help price the marketing campaign a fairly penny.
“BREAKING: Lizzo charged the Harris-Walz marketing campaign $2.3 million for a single look at a Detroit rally,” learn an Oct. 22 submit by an X consumer whose account is affiliated with a conservative account, @ConservativeOG.
Different Republicans shared this declare on X, together with Sean Spicer, onetime press secretary to former President Donald Trump and an account. “You need to be fairly determined to pay @lizzo to look at a rally,” Spicer wrote when he reshared the $2.3 million declare on X Oct. 22.
The declare additionally appeared on Instagram and Fb, the place it was flagged as a part of Meta’s efforts to fight false information and misinformation on its Information Feed. (Learn extra about our partnership with Meta, which owns Fb, Instagram and Threads.)
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Throughout her speech, Lizzo praised her birthplace of Detroit — a response to Trump’s latest criticism of the town — and stated she voted early and voted for Harris, emphasised the significance of casting a poll and stated “it’s about rattling time” the U.S. had a girl president — a reference to her 2022 hit music.
We discovered no proof that Lizzo was paid to make these remarks. The Harris marketing campaign confirmed to PolitiFact that the posts’ claims are unfaithful.
We searched utilizing Google and Nexis, a information database, and we discovered no credible information reviews or different indications that the Harris-Walz marketing campaign paid Lizzo for her look on the Harris occasion or her endorsement.
We additionally reviewed Harris’ Federal Election Fee filings, on the lookout for cases during which the marketing campaign spent about $2.3 million. On July 1 and Aug. 2, the Harris marketing campaign spent about $2.3 million for “media purchase & manufacturing,” in accordance with the FEC. We discovered no marketing campaign funds to Lizzo or for any movie star endorsement, however the latest cost knowledge accessible on the FEC’s web site is from Sept. 30.
If the marketing campaign had paid for an endorsement, federal legislation requires campaigns disclose the rationale for a cost. The marketing campaign disclosed one June 14 $75 cost for “endorsement-related bills” to the League of Conservation Voters Motion Fund.
Though a number of of the posts on X used the phrase “BREAKING,” as in “breaking information,” not one of the posts we discovered linked to the supply of the Lizzo declare they repeated.
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We tried to achieve Lizzo by contacting her agent and report label however obtained no response.
We price unproven claims that the Harris-Walz marketing campaign paid $2.3 million for Lizzo’s look at a Michigan rally False.
PolitiFact Researcher Caryn Baird and Workers Author Samantha Putterman contributed to this report.
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