Did singer Kid Rock bring millions of dollars in supplies to North Carolina for disaster recovery shortly after Hurricane Helene? No, that's not true: The website that reported on this has a satire disclaimer and is known for publishing made-up stories. The website's About Us page says, "Everything on this website is fiction."
The claim appeared in a post (archived here) on Facebook on October 6, 2024. It said:
Kid Rock heads to North Carolina with Millions in supplies - Taylor Swift Nowhere to be Found.
This is what the post looked like on Facebook at the time of writing:
(Source: Facebook screenshot taken on Tue Oct 8 17:20:17 2024 UTC)
The Intro section of the page that published the post labeled itself as:
A subsidiary of the America's Last Line of Defense network of trollery. Nothing on this page is real.
Its screenshot is below:
(Source: Facebook screenshot taken on Tue Oct 8 17:51:56 2024 UTC)
In its comment section, the post on Facebook linked to this article (archived here) from Dunning-Kruger-Times.com, a website operated by self-professed liberal troll Christopher Blair. As is the account on Facebook that published the claim about Kid Rock, Dunning-Kruger Times is part of the America's Last Line of Defense (ALLOD) network, which describes itself on Facebook as a "Satire/Parody - Entertainment website."
As of October 8, 2024, a search (archived here) of Google News did not bring up any credible results corroborating the claim. If the claim were true, this donation would have been major news, given coverage of intensive recovery efforts in North Carolina (archived here) from Hurricane Helene, which hit the state in late September 2024.
The Dunning-Kruger Times
The Dunning-Kruger Times is a satirical website with an About Us page (archived here) that has the following disclaimer:
About Us
Dunning-Kruger-Times.com is a subsidiary of the 'America's Last Line of Defense' network of parody, satire, and tomfoolery, or as Snopes called it before they lost their war on satire: Junk News
About Satire
Before you complain and decide satire is synonymous with 'comedy':
sat·ire ˈsaˌtī(ə)r noun: The use of humor, irony, exaggeration, OR ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.
Everything on this website is fiction. It is not a lie and it is not fake news because it is not real. If you believe that it is real, you should have your head examined. Any similarities between this site's pure fantasy and actual people, places, and events are purely coincidental and all images should be considered altered and satirical. See above if you're still having an issue with that satire thing.
The website is named after the Dunning-Kruger effect, a term from a psychology experiment that describes the phenomenon of being ignorant of one's own ignorance. (That experiment has been disputed by a math professor.)
Other Lead Stories fact checks of claims about Kid Rock can be found here.
Some of the many claims from Blair's websites Lead Stories has debunked can be found here.
