If you were to believe some posts on social media, the billionaire media mogul Oprah Winfrey — who lives in Maui part-time — was accused of callously refusing to let evacuees use her private road to shorten their travel time. But it's typically a bad idea to believe what you see on social media.

Oprah Winfrey has responded after viral social media posts claimed she kept a private road on her sprawling Maui estate closed off amid evacuations in Hawaii following a tsunami warning.