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.

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…