Following the performance, US president Donald Trump criticized the show on his platform Truth Social.

Bad Bunny has often been outspoken about US?politics — most notably during his Grammy acceptance speech for Best Musica Urbana Album, where he called for "ICE out,"referencing US Immigration and Customs Enforcement?operations, which have?resulted in two deaths in the city of Minneapolis.?

As a highly polarizing figure, Bad Bunny is frequently the subject of misinformation online. DW fact check?examined three viral claims about him circulating after the Super Bowl.

Claim:?"Wow.. Bad Bunny refused to stand for our national anthem", a user claims on X, sharing a video showing Bad Bunny sitting in a stadium while people around him allegedly sing the national anthem of the United States. The viral post, published on February 9, with more than one million views, implies that Bad Bunny refused to stand for the national anthem ahead of the Super Bowl.

It's not true that Bad Bunny sat during the national anthem. The video is not related to the Super Bowl on February 8, nor?are the people standing around the Puerto Rican singing the national anthem.?

A reverse image search reveals the footage first circulated a few months ago, after Bad Bunny attended a New York Yankees game on October 7. A?second angle?of the same moment confirms that Bad Bunny sat while many other people in the stadium were chanting,?but they were not singing the national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner"?but "God Bless America."?You can clearly hear the?lyrics"…to the prairies. To the oceans white with foam. God bless America […]" in the original clip.

Media outlets such as TMZ reported on the October incident at the time.

According to?United States Code, only the?"Star-Spangled Banner"?is designated the?national anthem of the USA.?"God Bless America" is not even mentioned.

The code says that "during rendition of the national anthem?when the flag is displayed, all present except those in uniform should stand at attention facing the flag with the right hand over the heart"?and "when the flag is not displayed, those present face toward the music and act in the same manner they would if the flag were displayed there."

There is nothing on whether?spectators should?stand during "God bless America."

Additionally, the code describes "patriotic customs," as suggested in the title itself. There is no?punishment if people do not adhere. According to experts cited by other media outlets on this topic in the past, the most pertinent word in the code passage about behavior during the national anthem?is "should"?― nowhere does it say "must."

Claim: A viral image on X of Bad Bunny with more than 960.000 views shows the singer wearing a dress featuring the colors of the transgender pride flag while burning a US?flag with a lighter. The image was spread on other social media platforms such as Facebook and Instagram as well.?

While Bad Bunny is known for supporting the LGBTQ+ community and for gender-fluid fashion statements , the viral image is not real.

Several indicators prove the image is AI-generated: The Facebook account which likely posted the image originally says in its bio, "Ai funny Content & Master Meme Maker."?Other AI-generated images of Bad Bunny appear in the same feed. The tattoos in the image do not match?Bad Bunny's real body art.?

When uploaded to Google’s Gemini, the system identifies a SynthID watermark, confirming it was created with Google AI tools.

Claim: "Many of you may have missed this, but the little boy who Bad Bunny handed his Grammy to at the Super Bowl was Liam Ramos! Amazing!", says an X post with more than 10.3?million views.

Along with the post, two images supposedly prove that the child Bad Bunny symbolically handed his Grammy Award is Liam Conejo Ramos, the boy who was arrested by federal immigrations agents on January 20 in Minneapolis.

The boy featured in Bad Bunny's Super Bowl LX halftime show is a 5-year-old child actor, Lincoln Fox, not Liam Conejo Ramos.?

After the show, social media users mistakenly identified the boy as Liam Conejo Ramos, whose arrest with his father, during an ICE operation in Minnesota, sparked nationwide attention. The similarity in age contributed to the confusion, but the claim is unfounded.?

This claim spread rapidly due to the emotional nature of the ICE case and the child's similar age. However,?Lincoln Fox himself confirmed on his Instagram account that he was the one performing at the Super Bowl.

He's also listed as a child model at LA model management. A?publicist for Bad Bunny also confirmed to NPR Musicthat the boy was not Liam Conejo Ramos, and reporting from other outlets also identified the child as Lincoln Fox.?

Edited by: Uta Steinwehr, Rachel Baig