False accusations of the government waging "weather warfare" spread online with social media posts claiming the storms were "deliberately deployed against red states" likely to vote for Republican Donald Trump.
"We are in a geoengineering 'meltdown' perpetrated by Globalists who want to 'control' the whole of humanity," said one post on X.
Ethan Porter, a professor and researcher at The George Washington University Misinformation/Disinformation Lab, said some people are using misinformation "as a convenient way to express their political beliefs."
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