weirdbeardgame@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 2 months agoNorth Carolina authorities arrest armed man after threats against FEMA workerswww.washingtonpost.comexternal-linkmessage-square22fedilinkarrow-up1259arrow-down11cross-posted to: news@lemmy.worldnews@lemmy.worldnews@lemmy.worldnorthcarolina@lemmy.world
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minus-squarelolola@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up12·2 months agoFEMA has a webpage for catalogging and responding to rumors about the hurricane response, though I don’t see any as extreme as the ones mentioned in this thread: https://www.fema.gov/disaster/recover/rumor/hurricane-rumor-response I’m skeptical of how much this will help after seeing how misinformation spread during COVID, but at least they’re trying.
minus-squarejjjalljs@ttrpg.networklinkfedilinkarrow-up6·2 months agoI think the people who need to have these rumors debunked wouldn’t trust a .gov website. They’ll believe a random fb post though.
FEMA has a webpage for catalogging and responding to rumors about the hurricane response, though I don’t see any as extreme as the ones mentioned in this thread: https://www.fema.gov/disaster/recover/rumor/hurricane-rumor-response
I’m skeptical of how much this will help after seeing how misinformation spread during COVID, but at least they’re trying.
I think the people who need to have these rumors debunked wouldn’t trust a .gov website. They’ll believe a random fb post though.