FACT CHECK: No, Oprah Is Not Mov­ing To Italy

FACT CHECK: No, Oprah Is Not Moving To Italy

A post shared on Face­book claims Oprah Win­frey plans to move to Italy in response to Elon Musk’s involve­ment in the Unit­ed States gov­ern­ment.

Ver­dict: False

There is no evi­dence to show Oprah plans to move it Italy.

Fact Check:

A post shared on Face­book claims for­mer talk show host Oprah Win­frey plans to move to Italy in response to Elon Musk’s involve­ment in the Unit­ed States gov­ern­ment. The cap­tion reads, “Oprah Win­frey decides to close her leg­endary show and plans to move to Italy. She explains: “I can’t live in Amer­i­ca for the next four years and breathe the same air as ELON MUSK.”
Detail in The Com­ments 🚨👇.”

The claim is false. There is no evi­dence that shows Oprah plans to move to Italy. (RELATED: No, Oprah Is Not Being ‘Escort­ed Around’ By US Mar­shals Over Alleged Sex Traf­fick­ing)

The post also claims Oprah plans to close her talk show. This claim is also false. Oprah end­ed her talk show, The Oprah Win­frey Show, in 2011 after it aired for 29 sea­sons.

The claim may have orig­i­nat­ed from a sto­ry pub­lished on a spam web­site called Bat­malite Media. The sto­ry title reads, “Oprah Win­frey Decides to End Leg­endary Show, Plans to Move to Italy: ‘I CAN’T LIVE IN THE US FOR THE NEXT 4 YEARS AND BREATH THE SAME AIR AS ELON MUSK.”

Snopes pre­vi­ous­ly debunked a sim­i­lar claim. Check Your Fact has reached out to Oprah for com­ment.