Did Dolly Parton, Kid Rock or various other celebrities all donate $500.000 to a "Remembering Renee Nicole Good" fund? No, that's not true: Several quasi identical stories were posted on social media with the name of the donating celebrity swapped out depending on the intended audience. The stories originated on a network of Facebook pages and websites run by people from Vietnam.
One such Facebook post (archived here) was published by a page named "GP Inspiration News" on January 17, 2026. It read:
Dolly Parton Donates $500,000 to the "Remembering Renee Nicole Good" Fund After a Heartbreaking Tragedy in Minneapolis -- But It's Not Just the Money; What She Dedicates to a 6-Year-Old Boy Left Without Both Parents Stuns the Nation...
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This is what the post looked like on Facebook at the time of writing:
(Source: Facebook screenshot taken on Sun Jan 18 10:37:44 2026 UTC)
The link in the post ultimately redirected here (archived here)
The page transparency tab of the GP Inspiration Nation page (archived here) indicated the page was being run by at least nine people in Vietnam:
(Source: screenshot of page transparecy tab of GP Inspiration Nation Facebook page)
At the time of writing, a search on Facebook (archived here) brought up two other posts with almost identical stories about Kid Rock and Caitlin Clark, a typical tactic used by the type of foreign spam network we've been writing about extensively at Lead Stories recently.
(Image source: Facebook search for '"Remembering Renee Nicole Good" Fund Donates')
At the publication time of this article a search on Google News for the terms "Remembering Renee Nicole Good" and "fund" did not return any results (archived here) mentioning such celebrity donations.
