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IMHO this is the mess at X/what was Twitter coming home to roost finally.

Rolling Stone: Meteorologists Get Death Threats as Hurricane Milton Conspiracy Theories Thrive

"“There’s so much bad information floating around out there that the good information has become obscured.”

Cappucci says that he’s noticed an enormous change on social media in the last three months: “Seemingly overnight, ideas that once would have been ridiculed as very fringe, outlandish viewpoints are suddenly becoming mainstream and it’s making my job much more difficult.” "

rollingstone.com/culture/cultu…

#disinformation #Milton #hurricanes #birdsite

“People are just so far gone, it’s honestly making me lose all faith in humanity,” says Washington D.C.-based meteorologist Matthew Cappucci, in a phone interview conducted while he was traveling down to Florida for the storm. “There’s so much bad information floating around out there that the good information has become obscured.” Cappucci says that he’s noticed an enormous change on social media in the last three months: “Seemingly overnight, ideas that once would have been ridiculed as very fringe, outlandish viewpoints are suddenly becoming mainstream and it’s making my job much more difficult.”

Hurricane Milton Spurs Misinformation, Meteorologist Death Threats

It's their job to warn residents about destructive storms — but political polarization has made them targets online.
Lorena O'Neil (Rolling Stone)
#birdsite #disinformation #hurricanes #milton

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