Former GOP candidates DeAnna Lorraine and Lauren Witzke falsely suggested in a video that Hurricane Ian was engineered specifically to target more conservative areas of Florida. That’s wildly untrue.
edia users are starting a different process — taking up a conspiracy theory that the Category 4 hurricane was staged.that people had been"tricked" into moving to Florida during the pandemic because of its anti-COVID-19 mandate ideology, and then fallen victim to a storm that had been government-engineered. It was"all just a set up," the post said.
"The ‘storm of the century’ as it is being called is unfortunately another one of many examples of how the government engineers weather to completely destroy places and as always they will use predictive programming to show you they're going to do it in advance," the user wrote."They created that hurricane that hit Florida!!" one Facebooksaid.
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