Leong: Online wildfire misinformation fuelled by social media business and broken internet

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There are enough real problems behind the recent proliferation of wildfires. We don\u0027t need to invent new ones, writes columnist Ricky Leong.

the house in Lahaina, as reported by the L.A. Times

But there are voices out in the wilderness who would prefer believing the Maui wildfire was the result of improbably intense solar activity, some kind of space laser or an advanced directed energy weapon. This handout satellite image courtesy of the European Space Agency’s Copernicus Sentinel-2 sattelite taken on August 16, 2023 shows fires burning in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada.Back in the spring, some fringe and fringe-adjacent political leaders and social media voices leaned heavily on the idea that wildfires in Alberta and Nova Scotia were linked to arson, even though they weren’t.

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