A far-right hoax targeting Oprah Winfrey trended nationally on Twitter, forcing her to issue a denial. It came after the hoax had been bubbling up for days around social media and far-right message boards.

During the night of March 17 and early morning of March 18, tweets circulated around a falsehood that Oprah had been arrested for supposedly being part of a child sex-trafficking ring. The falsehood eventually became the No. 1 trend nationally on Twitter, and Oprah was forced to rebut it.