{"id":5525,"date":"2024-09-04T16:22:02","date_gmt":"2024-09-04T16:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=5525"},"modified":"2024-09-04T16:22:02","modified_gmt":"2024-09-04T16:22:02","slug":"brittney-griner-received-62k-in-student-loan-forgiveness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=5525","title":{"rendered":"Brittney Griner Received $62K in Student Loan Forgiveness?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The author of the viral post noted, \u201cThis story actually happened on Earth 7, but money works differently there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"cover-main\" style=\"display: block;\" src=\"https:\/\/mediaproxy.snopes.com\/width\/1200\/https:\/\/media.snopes.com\/2024\/06\/griner_featured_image.jpg\" sizes=\"100vw\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mediaproxy.snopes.com\/width\/600\/https:\/\/media.snopes.com\/2024\/06\/griner_featured_image.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mediaproxy.snopes.com\/width\/960\/https:\/\/media.snopes.com\/2024\/06\/griner_featured_image.jpg 960w, https:\/\/mediaproxy.snopes.com\/width\/1200\/https:\/\/media.snopes.com\/2024\/06\/griner_featured_image.jpg 1200w\" alt=\" (Facebook page Americas Last Line of Defense)\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Image courtesy of Facebook page America\u2019s Last Line of Defense<\/p>\n<p>Claim:\u00a0WNBA star Brittney Griner received $62,000 in student loan forgiveness despite having a net worth of $140 million.<\/p>\n<p>On June 24, 2024, Facebook page\u00a0America\u2019s Last Line of Defense\u00a0(ALLOD) made a\u00a0post\u00a0claiming that WNBA star Brittney Griner had received $62,000 in student loan forgiveness despite having a net worth of $140 million:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"featured_image_img\" style=\"display: block;\" src=\"https:\/\/media-proxy.snopes.com\/width\/600?url=https:\/\/media.snopes.com\/2024\/06\/griner_screenshot_rev.png\" alt=\"\" data-image_id=\"470704\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(Facebook page America\u2019s Last Line of Defense)<\/p>\n<p>As of this writing, the post had received around 1,600 reactions and around 4,100 shares.<\/p>\n<p>This claim was not true. The Facebook page that posted it, America\u2019s Last Line of Defense, describes its output as being humorous or satirical in nature. The page is classified as \u201cSatire\/Parody\u201d on Facebook, and it includes the following disclaimer in its Info section:<\/p>\n<p>The flagship of the ALLOD network of trollery.\u00a0Nothing on this page is real.<\/p>\n<p>The lower-left corner of the meme also displayed a \u201csatire\u201d rating label.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>In a comment left on the post, visible in the screenshot below, the owner of the page further clarified that the story did not take place in reality, noting that it \u201cactually happened on Earth 7, but money works differently there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"featured_image_img\" style=\"display: block;\" src=\"https:\/\/media-proxy.snopes.com\/width\/600?url=https:\/\/media.snopes.com\/2024\/06\/brittney_griner_student_loan_comment.png\" alt=\"\" data-image_id=\"470700\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(Facebook page America\u2019s Last Line of Defense)<\/p>\n<p>There is no evidence that Griner, who\u00a0attended\u00a0Baylor University on a basketball scholarship, has received any student loan forgiveness at the time of this reporting. CelebrityNetWorth\u00a0estimated\u00a0the basketball player\u2019s net worth to be around $5 million, far lower than the $140 million claimed in the post.<\/p>\n<p>Like her fellow WNBA players\u00a0Angel Reese\u00a0and\u00a0Caitlin Clark, Griner is a\u00a0common\u00a0target of \u201csatire\u201d pages like America\u2019s Last Line of Defense, whose content is sometimes confused with real news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The author of the viral post noted, \u201cThis story actually happened on Earth 7, but money works differently there.\u201d Image courtesy of Facebook page America\u2019s Last Line of Defense &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5526,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5527,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5525\/revisions\/5527"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}