Monster hurricanes slamming the United States in recent weeks have triggered a torrent of misinformation, with politicians and social media users reviving conspiracy theories about weather manipulation ahead of the November 5 presidential election.
False accusations of the government waging “weather warfare” spread online with social media posts claiming the storms were “deliberately deployed against red states” likely to vote for Republican Donald Trump.
“We are in a geoengineering ‘meltdown’ perpetrated by Globalists who want to ‘control’ the whole of humanity,” said one post on X.
Rumors also focused on the Alaska-based High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP), which was formerly run by the US military, and cloud seeding, despite a lack of evidence linking the technologies to the formation of large storms.
The wave of falsehoods emerged after Helene became the deadliest hurricane to hit the US mainland since 2005’s Katrina, and Milton quickly followed, making landfall in Florida …