The wildest rumors, which many of you have heard about, are conspiracy theories that Democrats control the weather and intentionally created the hurricane to impact voting in red states. We tracked how those rumors spread on X, mapping highly-retweeted tweets along a cumulative graph:
from there to here. i ran into an account here on bluesky yesterday that is spamming hurricane disinfo links from twitter
Excellent. I'm glad somebody has eyes on this; I'm appalled and fascinated.
But perhaps the most concerning rumors are ones that are emerging from real confusion about how people will be able to cast their ballots as well as efforts by election officials to adapt their processes after the storm. Initial confusion may spark organic rumors and be exploited for disinformation.
If it wasn’t so extremely insulting for a normal mind, one could say it’s funny