Quick Take The wildfires in Maui caused widespread destruction on the island and claimed the lives of 97 people. The Maui Police Department and the FBI have released the list of 31 individuals still unaccounted for following the fire. Yet an Instag
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PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – No proof of Oprah Winfrey hiring a private firefighting team before Maui wildfires
Oprah Winfrey “managed to hire a private firefighting team” to protect her Maui properties before the August wildfires occurred.
PolitiFact→ TikTok posts – Hawaii isn’t home to tons of lithium, despite baseless claims linking wildfires and lithium access
Hawaii wildfire was intentionally set because there’s “120 million tons of lithium in Maui.”
Logically→ HAARP did not cause the floods and wildfires in Greece
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: UK’s MI6 Did NOT Reveal ‘Weather Weapon’ Used To Cause Wildfires In Hawaii
PolitiFact→ Viral image – More than 60 people missing after Maui fires, not 1,000 children
“Over 1,000 missing children in Maui.”
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – Decades-old video doesn’t show police evicting Hawaiians after Maui wildfires
Video shows Hawaiians being evicted after Maui wildfires.
PolitiFact→ What are 'smart cities' and why are conspiracy theorists linking them to wildfires?
Conspiracy theories attempt to link recent wildfires with plans for “smart cities,” but there’s no connection. Most smart city technology is small-scale and incremental — such as adding software and sensors — and doesn’t require destroying
Logically→ Edited image passed off as police arrests 30 days after Maui fires
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Demo Video And Blue Objects Do NOT Prove A Laser Caused Hawaii’s Maui Fires
Do an unburned blue car and beach umbrella seen in a social-media video about the August 2023 wildfire that ravaged the town of Lahaina on Hawaii's island of Maui prove that lasers caused the blaze since the color blue can resist lasers?
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: 2,000 Kids NOT Missing From Maui A Month After 2023 Wildfires — School Enrollment Data ≠ Missing Persons Data
Were 2,000 kids missing in Maui a month after the wildfires of August 2023? No, that's not true: There are not 2,000 missing children on the island of Maui, Hawaii Governor Josh Green's office told Lead Stories on September 11, 2023. The
Logically→ No, an airborne laser (ABL) and other energy weapons did not cause the Maui fires.
Logically→ No, the charred carcass of a dog does not prove the Maui fires were caused by energy weapons
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Biden Did NOT Appoint FEMA Director Before Maui Fires, Did NOT Confirm He Knew They Would Occur
Did the timing of President Joe Biden appointing a Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) director before the Maui fires and subsequently saying that director was already in Hawaii when the fires broke out confirm Biden knew the wildf
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – No, President Joe Biden didn’t say the Maui, Hawaii, wildfires were ‘planned’
Video shows President Joe Biden confirmed “the Lahaina fires were planned.”
ABC News / AP Fact Check→ Yes, a top FEMA official was in Hawaii before the Maui fires, but it was for a conference
CLAIM: President Biden admitted that a top Federal Emergency Management Agency official was already on the ground in Hawaii even before the Maui wildfires started.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Obamas Do NOT Have Maui Estate That Would Have Been Affected By August 2023 Wildfires
Do former President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle Obama own an estate in Maui, Hawaii, and was that supposed Maui estate "spared from the fires" that affected Maui in early August 2023? No, that's not true: The Obamas do not own an e
Logically→ 2007 news of fake FEMA press conference shared as ‘staged’ briefing on Maui wildfires
ABC News / AP Fact Check→ Social media videos push baseless conspiracy theory that blue items were spared from Maui wildfires
CLAIM: Only blue items survived the Maui wildfires and lasers do not impact that color, suggesting the island was actually hit by a directed energy weapon “attack.”
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – Canada wildfires linked to record heat and drought, not ‘smart cities’
Video suggests Canada wildfires were deliberately set to advance “smart cities” push.
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – She didn’t start the fire: Maui blames electric utility for fires, not Oprah
“Oprah started the fire.”
ABC News / AP Fact Check→ Fake FEMA news conference took place in 2007, not during the recent Maui wildfires
AP’S ASSESSMENT: False.
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – Maui police: No bodies have washed ashore on Lanai after wildfires
“183 bodies have washed up on Lanai.”
ABC News / AP Fact Check→ No, a top FEMA official was not arrested for treason following the Maui fires. The claim is satire
CLAIM: Erik Hooks, the deputy director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, has been arrested in connection with the agency’s response to the Maui wildfires.
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – Fires can hop; directed energy weapons did not spare blue things in Hawaii
Images of blue things that weren’t burned in Hawaii are evidence directed energy weapons started the wildfires there.
Full Fact→ Windowless cars in Maui aftermath pictures don’t mean fires were caused by weapon
People online have also claimed the fires weren’t hot enough to melt glass. Some fires are hot enough to do that, but often the glass shatters from heat.
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – Directed energy weapons weren’t used to start the fires in Hawaii and these photos don’t rebut that
Images of burned cars in Lahaina, Hawaii, are evidence wildfires there were started by directed energy weapons.
Truth or Fiction?→ Canadian PM Trudeau Slams Meta for Shuttering News Access During ‘Apocalyptic’ Wildfires
The Canadian government sharply criticized the tech megafirm Meta on August 21 2023 for continuing to bar Facebook users in the country from accessing online news on the platform amid a devastating series of wildfires. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau kno
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – No, the World Economic Forum did not say the Maui wildfires were orchestrated
“WEF admits Maui wildfires orchestrated to transform Hawaii into 15-minute cities.”
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Hurricane Dora DID Affect Winds During Maui Wildfires, Even Though It Was Hundreds Of Miles Away
Was Hurricane Dora, which passed nearly 500 miles south of Hawaii, too far away to fan the deadly wildfires that killed scores of people on Maui in early August 2023? No, that's not true: The flames that raced across western Maui were dri
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Maui Wildfires Are NOT Linked To Green Lasers Recorded Over Mauna Kea, Hawaii, On January 28, 2023
Is there a link between the wildfires that burned on Maui, Hawaii, on August 8, 2023, and a sighting of green lights seen on a January 28, 2023, livestream from the Subaru Telescope on top of Mount Mauna Kea, on the "Big Island" of Hawaii
Full Fact→ Old footage of power line explosion in US does not show Maui fires starting
Posts on social media show blurry footage of sparks and explosions which they falsely claim are directed energy weapons being used in Hawaii.
Full Fact→ No evidence Maui wildfires started intentionally to create a ‘smart island’
A video claims the Hawaiian island held a “smart city conference” in January.
AllSides→ Kamala Harris claims climate change caused deadly Maui wildfires
https://thepostmillennial.com/kamala-harris-claims-climate-change-caused-deadly-maui-wildfires While on
Logically→ No, fires in Hawaii are not related to smart city plans
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – No evidence direct energy weapons caused Maui wildfires
"Hawaii is being attacked by direct energy weapons."
ABC News / AP Fact Check→ Online posts spread misinformation about FEMA aid following Maui wildfires
Social media users are discouraging residents from accepting disaster aid in Maui, falsely claiming the Federal Emergency Management Agency could seize their property if they do.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Trump Visiting Maui After Wildfires — It’s Alabama In 2019
Does a video show former President Donald Trump visiting the Hawaiian island of Maui in August 2023 to comfort survivors of the devastating wildfires there? No, that's not true: The footage of Trump is from 2019, when Trump visited Alabam
FactCheck.org→ High Winds, Drought Conditions Led to Maui Fires, No Evidence Intentionally Set
SciCheck Digest It’s not known what sparked the wildfires in Maui, although some evidence points to downed power lines. The conditions were ripe for fire, as large amounts of invasive grasses were dry due to drought and high winds helped to rapid
Full Fact→ Mountain Dew drink doesn’t prove Maui fires were ‘planned’
The claim has been shared widely online following wildfires on the Hawaiian island.