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Disasters & emergencies fact checks
Explore claims publishers have checked about disasters & emergencies. Read their original ratings and follow the evidence.
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A photo of a deer standing near a burned down residence is from the Australia wildfires.
Publisher’s rating: Mostly False
Photo shows the Smokehouse Creek fire in Texas.
Publisher’s rating: False
Video shows buildings crumbling because of an “earthquake in Taiwan.”
Publisher’s rating: False
The Federal Emergency Management Agency “is confiscating supplies and donations!”
Publisher’s rating: False
PolitiFact also debunked a baseless claim that the Texas fires were started by directed energy weapons.
Publisher’s rating: False
Video shows “geoengineering happening” as Hurricane Milton approaches Florida.
Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire
Hurricane Milton is part of Tampa’s plan to become a “15-minute city.”
Publisher’s rating: False
“WEF admits Maui wildfires orchestrated to transform Hawaii into 15-minute cities.”
Publisher’s rating: False
A video shows wreckage of the recent plane crash in Nepal.
Publisher’s rating: False
Photo claiming to be that of Ethiopia airlines crash
Publisher’s rating: False.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tweeted, "I see people are rushing out to fill up their cars for this hurricane at the gas station. This wouldn’t be an issue if they had electric cars. If the power is out for a week how are they going to get gas? We need to start planning ahead and moving forward."
Publisher’s rating: False
Recent wildfires in Canada were simultaneously ignited using weapons.
Publisher’s rating: False
A video shows footage of the helicopter crash that killed Kobe Bryant.
Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire
Maryland bridge collapse was a false flag operation to distract from other events.
Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire
A CNN headline reads: “Members of Crip gang volunteer to fight wildfires after sky turns red.”
Publisher’s rating: False
The Biden administration is offering only “$770 for people who lost everything” in the Los Angeles wildfires.
Publisher’s rating: False
“Close to hundreds” of people died at Astroworld.
Publisher’s rating: False
Research from related reporting identifies the Astroworld crowd crush as a 2021 event in Houston and reports that 10 people died. That figure is far below “close to hundreds,” so the supplied research contradicts the claim that close to hundreds died at Astroworld. The excerpts also distinguish deaths from injuries: one reports that hundreds were injured, while stating that 10 people died. That distinction matters because the claim concerns deaths, not the total number of people harmed.
Footage shows Canada’s wildfires were “planned.”
Publisher’s rating: False
Truck accident photo at the Likoni Channel 2019
Publisher’s rating: False.
