Back in 2018, one rumor about Barron took the internet by storm.
Many folks on social media claimed that Barron was a chess grandmaster.
As it turns out, though, this was just gossip about an ever-mysterious public figure.

Barron may very well be a proficient chess player; that much is unclear.
This rumor reportedly came from an article published by The Daily Chronicle, as the investigators discovered.
Of course, the article was entirely satire.

This would have made him the youngest person to ever nab the title.
This claim about his IQ, however, was also just a rumor.