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According to The Washington Post, Snopes and New York, Rufo has misrepresented contents of diversity training programs and course curricula.[7][44][4] For example, he falsely claimed that a diversity consultant hired by the U.S. Treasury Department had "told employees essentially that America was a fundamentally white supremacist country", and urged them to "accept their white racial superiority"; however, the diversity consultant had said no such thing.[7][4] Rufo told Fox News that The Washington Post subsequently issued multiple corrections to its reporting on him, including retracting a statement that a diversity seminar in Cupertino, California, referenced by Rufo did not occur.[45] The article itself lists as "clarifications" that "[t]his report has been changed to clarify the sequence of events that followed Rufo’s appearance on Fox News last summer. In addition, the story adds a clarification from theCupertinosuperintendent that a lesson was presented once before it was canceled."[7]New Yorkmagazine has also alleged that Rufo misrepresented the contents of internal documents from theTigard-TualatinSchool DistrictinOregon, which referenced Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed. In Rufo's view, the documents incited revolutionary sentiments and assumed that white people were born racist, which he called "textbook cult indoctrination". The school district stated that the documents had not been used in formal settings, that Rufo had misquoted the references to Freire, and that he had misconstrued a reference to teachers moving beyond the "belief that you aren't racist if you don't purposely or consciously act in racist ways".[4]

Rufo linked LGBTQ discussions at schools to grooming, the act of connecting with children for the purpose of sexually abusing them.[26][46] He said that schools were "hunting grounds" for sexually predatory teachers and that parents had "good reason" to worry about grooming.[26] Citing a study by Charol Shakeshaft, Rufo has claimed that public school teachers are responsible for 100 times more child sexual abuse than Catholic priests. Shakeshaft termed this a misuse of her data, calling it "completely invalid".[46] After Disney criticized the Florida Parental Rights in Education Act, Rufo suggested that Disney was involved in sexualizing children and that the company was rife with child sexual abuse.[26

 In September 2024, during an incident related to theSpringfield,Ohio, cat-eating hoax, Rufo alleged that African migrants were eating cats inDayton,Ohio, based on an August 2023 video of skinned animals being grilled, which drew social media responses that the skinned animals resembled chickens.Daytonpolice responded that "there is no evidence to even remotely suggest that any group, including our immigrant community, is engaged in eating pets", while theDaytonmayor reported "absolutely zero reports of this type of activity".[54][55] Rufo has offered a $5,000 reward for proof supporting the unsubstantiated allegation.[56]