How Cher could have responded to Caroline Leavitt (Cher did not say this!!!) ...

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1. Are you sure it wasn't Bob Dylan?

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1179642113598591

Or Patti LaBelle? https://www.facebook.com/100093110930017/posts/sit-down-baby-girl-patti-labelle-suddenly-calls-karoline-leavitt-a-privilege-pup/666751549771870/

Or Rory McIlroy? https://www.facebook.com/61571577174576/posts/sit-down-baby-girl-privilege-puppet-hes-just-a-golfer-rory-mcilroy-silences-crit/122150470028719239/

Or any of a dozen other celebrities? https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/celebrity/articles/fact-check-cher-did-not-055832259.html

Did Cher tell Karoline Leavitt to "sit down, baby girl" after reading out her bio on MSNBC? No, that's not true: The viral story about the singer reacting to a supposed rant from Leavitt about "out-of-touch celebrities who think they can lecture America" originated on a network of websites and Facebook pages run from Vietnam. It contained verifiably false details. Dozens of versions of the story with other celebrities reading the bio also appeared online, including Barbra Streisand, Joan Baez, Ted Cruz and many others.

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The Facebook page "Venus of Sound" which was used to promote the story had a page transparency tab (archived here) indicating it was run by several people in Vietnam, among others.

The Vietnam connection is significant, since fact-checkers, including Lead Stories, have identified a major source of AI-generated false stories coming from a single operation based in that Southeast Asian country. We have published at least 70 fact-check articles in 2025 focused on this content.