Did George Strait sign a $13.5 million deal with Netflix for a 7-episode series about his journey to become a music legend as of September 2, 2025? No, that's not true: There is no evidence Strait signed a Netflix deal. The only source making the claim is a website that publishes hundreds of fake stories each day promoted by Facebook pages administered from Vietnam. An AI text detector concluded that 86 percent of the story was written by artificial intelligence.
The claim appeared in a post (archived here) where it was published on the Facebook account "Country Spirit Radio" on August 30, 2025. It opened:
BREAKING: Music Legend George Strait Signs $13.5 Million Deal with Netflix for 7-Episode Series About His Journey to Becoming a Music Legend
This is what the image in the post looked like:
(Source: Facebook screenshot taken by Lead Stories on Sep 2 2025)
The top of the post's comments included a link to an online article (archived here) titled "BREAKING: Music Legend George Strait Signs $13.5 Million Deal with Netflix for 7-Episode Series About His Journey to Becoming a Music Legend." Here is a screenshot of the post on Facebook:
(Source: Facebook screenshot taken by Lead Stories on Sep 2 2025)
Lead Stories submitted the full text of the article to the JustDone AI text detector, which uses four systems to look for signs that writing was done by artificial intelligence. It concluded that 86 percent of the story was AI-generated, as this screenshot shows:
(Source: Screenshot of JustDone.com by Lead Stories)
A Google search for "George Strait Netflix" found no other reports of this claim, beyond social media posts promoting this article. Similarly, the Yahoo! News index of partner news sites and news services (archived here) showed no legitimate news reports of Strait signing a $13.5 million deal with Netflix.
None of the top entertainment industry news websites, including Deadline, Variety, and The Hollywood Reporter, reported such a deal as of September 2, 2025. Lead Stories reached out to Netflix for a comment and will update the fact check when Netflix responds.
Lead Stories finds a growing number of Facebook pages administered from Vietnam that are using AI to mass produce false stories targeted at an American audience. The "Country Spirit Radio" Facebook page is managed from Vietnam, according to the Meta transparency data (archived here.):
(Source: Facebook screenshot by Lead Stories)
This post about Strait mirrors a post about Stephen Colbert signing a $13.5 million deal with Netflix, which Lead Stories fact checked here.
