Taylor Swift didn’t cut red-state shows after election | Fact check

A Nov. 10 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) shows images of musician Taylor Swift along with a partial map of states shaded red or blue.
“Taylor Swift Cuts RED STATES from Tour After Massive red wave,” the post’s caption states.
The post was shared more than 2,000 times in three days. Similar versions of the claim on Facebook and on Threads also circulated widely.
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This didn’t happen. The claim originated on a satirical account but was not presented that way in the Facebook post.
Swift supported Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz in the 2024 presidential race, giving the Democratic ticket her public endorsement shortly after Harris debated Republican nominee Donald Trump on Sept. 10. Trump defeated Harris in the race, claiming 312 electoral votes to 226 for Harris.Trump won in each of the seven battleground states, turning wide swaths of the country “red.” The term “red state” typically refers to states that have traditionally backed Republican candidates, or at least backed a Republican most recently. 
But Swift didn’t respond to Trump’s victory by canceling her concerts in those states. There is no credible news reporting about her canceling upcoming shows because of politics.
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The claim was first shared in a Nov. 9 Facebook post from the account The Patriots Network, which is part of the SpaceXMania network of satirical websites. The account identifies itself in its intro section as posting satirical and parody content, and the post’s caption and its image both identify it as satire. A longer article linked in the caption published Nov. 9 by SpaceXMania.com also contains multiple satire labels.
The Nov. 10 post links to an article on a disreputable website that is nearly a word-for-word duplicate of the one published by SpaceXMania.com.
The Facebook post is an example of what could be called “stolen satire,” where claims written as satire and presented that way originally are reposted in a way that makes them appear to be legitimate news. As a result, readers of the second-generation post are misled, as was the case here.
The post also gets a key detail wrong. Swift could not have canceled any concerts in red states because there were no remaining concerts scheduled in those locations in the first place. The remaining shows in the Eras Tour will be in Canada, with six dates in Toronto and three in Vancouver.
USA TODAY previously debunked false claims that Swift said she regrets her endorsement of the Harris-Walz ticket and was photographed wearing an anti-Trump T-shirt, holding pro-Trump banners inside a stadium’s luxury box or on the red carpet at the Grammy Awards.
USA TODAY reached out to several social media users who shared the post but did not immediately receive responses.
Lead Stories and PolitiFact also debunked the claim.
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