The FBI is Not Investigating Dianne Feinstein for Insider Trading

In September 2020, a rumor began to circulate on social media that Senator Feinstein was being asked to hand over documents to the FBI as part of an investigation into insider trading predicated on stock sales made by her after receiving intel on the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. This largely circled around an article published on September 8th, 2020 by the Right Wing Tribune announcing the document hand-over in addition to referencing several other unrelated criminal allegations from the past. 

This quickly took off on Twitter and other social media, with many political pundits sharing the article with the same headline. It also spread widely in different versions amongst self-described Q-anon personalities and fringe conspiracy theorists who also linked the story to Chinese influence and other unrelated trades and events.