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Did Hurricane Irma Create a 'Cloud Face'?

Written by:
Arturo Garcia
Sep 11, 2017 A web site passed off a video shot in Canada in 2011 as "live footage" of a storm that lashed Fl ...
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Floridians Can Obtain Food Stamp Benefits If Their Power Went Out During Hurricane Irma?

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Dan MacGuill
Sep 15, 2017 A series of Facebook rumors about food stamp benefits for post-Irma Florida residents have a gra ...
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Water boiling in a pot

Raw Sewage Still Poses Threat in Aftermath of Hurricane Irma

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David Emery
Sep 21, 2017 Residents of Everglades City, Florida remain on notice to boil drinking water due to fecal conta ...
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Did Crabs Swarm a Florida Road After Hurricane Irma?

Written by:
Arturo Garcia
Sep 13, 2017 In 2017, a website falsely claimed to be showing live footage of a mass crab migration in the af ...
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Did Pizza Hut Pressure Workers Evacuating From Irma's Path to Stay at Work?

Written by:
Arturo Garcia
Sep 11, 2017 The company said a franchise manager "elected to add a few things" to a set of company recommend ...
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Was Hillary Clinton Caught on Tape Laughing About Irma’s ‘Wiping Out All of Those Florida Hillbillies?‘

Written by:
Arturo Garcia
Sep 20, 2017 A disreputable web site fabricated a story about the Democratic presidential nominee and MSNBC h ...
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Did Ben Carson Tell Hurricane Victims 'Homelessness Is A Gift From Heaven'?

Written by:
Arturo Garcia
Sep 19, 2017 An image circulating online attributes an insensitive (and fabricated) quote to the Secretary of ...
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Mockup of a hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico

Can Hurricane Victims Delay Their Mortgage Payments?

Written by:
Arturo Garcia
Sep 15, 2017 Lenders Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, as well as the federal government, have programs to help hom ...
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Did the Red Cross Serve This Meal to Hurricane Victims?

Written by:
Dan Evon
Sep 13, 2017 A photograph purportedly showing a meal served by the Red Cross to victims of Hurricane Harvey i ...
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Were Three Sharks Filmed in Miami Flood Waters After Hurricane Irma?

Written by:
Dan Evon
Sep 12, 2017 A video purportedly showing sharks swimming in a flooded area of Miami after Irma passed through ...
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Florida Governor Rick Scott Critically Injured During Hurricane Irma Cleanup?

Written by:
Dan MacGuill
Sep 11, 2017 A notorious purveyor of fake news churns out another fabrication.
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Is Hurricane Irma on Track to Become a 'Category 6' Storm?

Written by:
Alex Kasprak
Sep 5, 2017 A rumor that scientists would create a new hurricane category for Irma led people to believe tha ...
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Hurricane Irma Floods Miami International Airport?

Written by:
Dan Evon
Sep 11, 2017 The White House's social media director mistook a video showing heavy flooding at the Mexico Cit ...
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Did Jennifer Lawrence Say Hurricanes Are 'Nature's Wrath' Against Trump?

Written by:
Bethania Palma
Sep 11, 2017 Right-wing web sites misrepresented Lawrence's assertion that climate change is caused by human ...
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Did Hurricane Irma Draw the Water Away from Beaches in Florida and the Bahamas?

Written by:
Dan MacGuill
Sep 11, 2017 Remarkable images appear to show examples of a real meteorological phenomenon called "negative s ...
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Did Physicist Michio Kaku Say HAARP Caused Irma and Harvey?

Written by:
Kim LaCapria
Sep 11, 2017 A 2013 CBS video segment about weather modification was dishonestly reframed as a clip about Hur ...
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Hurricane Irma Rumor FAQ

Written by:
Kim LaCapria
Sep 9, 2017 Hurricane Irma has prompted the showering of social media with rumors, astonishing photographs, ...
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Video Shows Hurricane Irma Hitting Antigua and Barbuda?

Written by:
Dan Evon
Sep 8, 2017 A video purportedly showing Hurricane Irma destroying buildings in Antigua and Barbuda actually ...
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Did a 2005 Movie Feature Hurricanes Named Harvey and Irma?

Written by:
Dan MacGuill
Sep 8, 2017 An online conspiracy theory about government-created hurricanes gets even the most basic facts w ...
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Airlines Battle Price-Gouging Allegations as Hurricane Irma Advances on Florida

Written by:
Arturo Garcia
Sep 8, 2017 Several companies instituted price caps after people attempting to evacuate Florida found high t ...
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