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How Hurricane Helene Has Fuelled Far-Right Conspiracies

How Hurricane Helene Has Fuelled Far-Right Conspiracies

Update: 2024-10-161
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Jessica Pishko, who recently published a piece about the devastation left behind by Hurricane Helene, joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss conspiracy theories that have emerged in the storm’s wake. On social media, people have falsely claimed, among other things, that the federal government has diverted disaster funding to migrants and that FEMA has seized peoples land. In a battleground state such as North Carolina, where the Republican gubernatorial candidate, Mark Robinson, has been mired in scandal, what do the confusion and conspiracies mean for the upcoming Presidential election? 


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How Hurricane Helene Has Fuelled Far-Right Conspiracies

How Hurricane Helene Has Fuelled Far-Right Conspiracies

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