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How Militia Groups Exploit Disasters

How Militia Groups Exploit Disasters

Posts containing "militia" and FEMA-related words on X/Twitter have had 44.7 million impressions and 7.31 million unique users in the last two weeks, most of which occurred in the past week.

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Oct 07, 2024
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False claims about FEMA and disaster aid in the U.S. are setting the stage for potential violence in the coming weeks. Hurricane Helene made landfall last week along with a wave of misleading and false claims. This onslaught of consequence-free punditry (for the pundits, anyhow) is harming hurricane victims who are being misled and responders who are su…

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E. Rosalie
Disasters & disinformation (public health + nat sec) @ Johns Hopkins | studies in Nature, MMFA, Rantt, Journal of Science Policy & Governance, and Hoaxlines. Tracking information manipulation related to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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