Did Eminem, Kid Rock, Chris Stapleton, Dolly Parton, Taylor Swift or other celebrities stand for photos of themselves and supporters opening "America's first 100% free community health center"? No, that's not true: Nearly identical stories mentioning more than 40 celebrities in near-identical photos were published by a network of foreign websites and Facebook pages. There were no legitimate news articles about the ribbon-cuttings, any one of which would have been a newsworthy event covered by legitimate local and national news outlets.
The Eminem version appeared in a January 5, 2026 Facebook post (archived here) on the "Trap Legends" page. It opened: "Eminem has quietly opened America's first 100% free community medical center in his hometown of Detroit, the city that raised him." It continued:
No press conference. No cameras. Just the doors opening at dawn.Standing in the early morning light, Eminem helped unlock the Eminem Community Care Center, a zero-cost medical facility built for Detroit's homeless and working-class residents -- people who've gone too long without basic care.
This is what a sample of the 41 fake posts looked like on Facebook at the time of writing, none of the pictures show dim morning light, all show a press conference:
(Image source: Lead Stories screenshots of Facebook posts found by searching for "America's first 100% free community health center".)
The transparency tabs for other versions of the fake health center stories on Facebook showed those pages were run from Vietnam and promoted stories on websites based in Vietnam:
The Facebook page publishing the fake story about Kid Rock, for example, included this transparency tab, showing "Rockers Unleashed" is run from Vietnam:
That page promoted a fake story on the https://sportnewss.livextop.com website, whose terms of service page shows the site is operated from Vietnam:
(Image source: Lead Stories screenshot of the Terms of Service page of the sportnewss.livextop.com website.)
The Facebook page publishing the fake free clinic story about Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce included this transparency tab, showing the "Red & Gold Pride" page is operated from Vietnam:
(Image source: Lead Stories screenshot of the page transparency tab of the "Red & Gold Pride" page on Facebook.)
That page promotes a story on a https://hoaus.feji.io/ website, "Lyric Zone" whose Terms & Conditions do not provide country of origin information, although Lead Stories has traced other fake news blitzes to feji.io pages that tell users Vietnam is the country of origin of the organization.
The Facebook page "Trap Legends" that published the Eminem story had a page transparency tab (archived here) indicating it was run from India, Nepal and the U.S.:
(Image source: Lead Stories screenshot of the page transparency tab of the "Trap Legends" page on Facebook.)
The Vietnam connections are 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. You can see recent reporting and fact checks mentioning that country here.
None of the health center stories, which would be big news if real, were documented in the public record.
Lead Stories searched the Google News index of thousands of news sites for news articles mentioning "America's first 100% free community health center". That index included zero stories matching the phrases from the Facebook posts in connection to any of the more than 40 famous people in the Facebook posts (archived here).
The Facebook post about Taylor Swift, one of the most-well-known names on Earth, linked to a story (archived here) that included following passage:
AMERICA'S FIRST 100% FREE HOMELESS MEDICAL CLINIC --"THIS IS THE SOUL WE WANT TO LEAVE BEHIND"
A search for "Medical Clinic - this is the soul we want to leave behind" on Swift's Facebook page returned zero matches.
In case there had been a news blackout on medical clinic stories in legitimate news outlets, Lead Stories searched Facebook for the phrase "America's first 100% free community health center" (archived here). That revealed dozens of results with almost exactly the same story but with celebrities, athletes and politicians' names substituted in, accompanied by very similar images showing ribbon-cuttings or front entrance ceremonies with the celebrity.
That Lead Stories search found posts naming:
- Taylor Swift's fiancé, pro football player Travis Kelce;
- EGOT Jennifer Hudson;
- Movie star Kevin Costner;
- Dancer Derek Hough;
- Rock star Bruce Springsteen;
- Rock star Bob Seger;
- Rock star Neil Young;
- Tennis champion Novak Djokovic;
- Blues star Bonnie Raitt;
- Heavy metal band Metallica;
- Rock star Josh Groban;
- Movie star Johnny Depp;
- Movie star Robert DeNiro;
- Rock star Jon Bon Jovi;
- Television sportscaster Nick Saban
- Movie star Keanu Reeves;
- Pro football star and broadcaster Tom Brady;
- R&B star Usher;
- Worship country singer Brandon Lake;
- Pop star Adam Lambert;
- Country star Don Reid;
- Country star Blake Shelton;
- Professional hockey coach Travis Green;
- Soul star Chaka Khan;
- R&B star Alicia Keys;
- Country star Alan Jackson;
- Country star Willie Nelson;
- Country star Randy Travis;
- Pop star Cyndi Lauper;
- Country star George Strait;
- Comedian Martin Lawrence;
- Pop star Cat Stevens;
- Country star Miranda Lambert;
- Pop star Kid Rock;
- Pop singer Teddy Swims;
- College football coach Deion Sanders;
- Country star Chris Stapleton;
- Professional football player Jared Goff;
- Country star Connie Smith;
- Professional football team owner Art Rooney II;
- Rap star 50 Cent.
Shown below in a scrolling GIF are the results:
(Image source: animation of Facebook search results for the phrase "America's first 100% free community health center".)
Lead Stories has published a primer -- or a prebunk -- on how to identify these kinds of fake posts exported from Vietnam. It's titled "Prebunk: Beware Of Fake Fan Pages Spreading False Stories About Your Favorite Celebrities -- How To Spot 'Viet Spam'"
