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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ABC News / AP Fact Check→ False claim that Navy SEALs rescued missing Maui children from cages comes from a parody site
AP’S ASSESSMENT: False.
PolitiFact→ TikTok posts – Story about Navy SEALs saving missing kids in Maui is fabricated
“Navy SEALs Save Missing Maui Children” who were padlocked in cages.
Logically→ Nej, det var inte en “Airborne-laser” (ABL) eller andra energivapen som orsakade bränderna på Maui
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.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: US Marines in Maui Did NOT ‘Tactically Abort A Gunfight With National Guardsmen’
Did U.S. Marines in Maui "tactically abort a gunfight with National Guardsmen"? No, that's not true: The website this claim was made on carries a disclaimer stating that it publishes satirical content. The claim appeared in an article pub
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Maui Houseless Residents Evicted In 2023 With ‘Nowhere To Go’
Does a video shared to social media in September 2023 show Maui residents "being arrested for camping on the beach with nowhere to go" following the destructive wildfires that killed at least 115 people? No, that's not true: The video in
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.
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.
Logically→ No, hundreds of dead bodies have not washed ashore in Lanai after the Maui wildfire
Logically→ No, hundreds of dead bodies have not washed ashore in Lanai after the Maui wildfire
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
PolitiFact→ Viral image – Altered video changed CBS chyron from segment featuring Oprah Winfrey in Maui
CBS reported on Oprah Winfrey reacting “to getting cancelled for stealing land amid Maui fires.”
Logically→ 2007 news of fake FEMA press conference shared as ‘staged’ briefing on Maui wildfires
Full Fact→ Maui fire books on Amazon don’t prove disaster was pre-planned
A number of books that quickly appeared as available for sale on Amazon were self-published, which can be done in a matter of days.
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→ TikTok posts – Claim that FEMA is burying Maui wildfire victims in a ‘mass gravesite’ started as satire
“Marines caught FEMA operatives piling corpses into a mass gravesite at the Maui Forest Reserve.”
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – Los ricos no pintaron sus casas azul para evitar incendio en Maui, Hawai
“Personas poderosas ricas … pintaron los techos” de sus casas de color azul para que no se dañaran durante los incedios forestales en Maui, Hawai.
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – Un libro no prueba que los incendios de Maui, Hawai, fueron planeados
El libro “Fire & Fury” “salió un día después del fuego en Hawaii … Esto es más evidencia de que todo fue planificado”.
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.”
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show People Chanting ‘Fk (Fuck) Joe Biden’ in Maui — It Was Digitally Altered
Did the "entire population" of Hawaii chant "Fk (Fuck) Joe Biden" during the president's visit to Maui on August 21, 2023? No, that's not true: A short clip on social media did not show any supposed protesters, and footage of the same eve
Logically→ Att Obamas och andra kändisars egendomar och herrgårdar överlevde bränderna på Maui bevisar inte att de var anlagda eller styrda.
FactCheck.org→ Online Videos Share Fabricated Story About FEMA and Marines on Maui
Quick Take The Federal Emergency Management Agency operates a Disaster Recovery Center on Maui and has approved $7 million in assistance to thousands of wildfire survivors. Online videos, however, are sharing a fabricated tale about FEMA’s op
PolitiFact→ TikTok posts – Los incendios forestales en Maui no fueron creados por láser, ni para crear una ciudad tecnológica
El incendio forestal en Maui, Hawai, fue provocado por un arma "láser" para crear una nueva ciudad tecnológica.
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – ‘Zero response’ for Maui, Hawaii claim is false; government aid came hours after wildfire started
“There has been zero response from local, regional or federal officials” to aid people affected by the Maui, Hawaii, wildfires.
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.
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 – Fabricated story fantasizes about Maui gunfight between U.S. Marine Corps and FEMA agents
“Marines neutralize fleeing FEMA convoy in Maui.”
Logically→ Nej, denne video viser ikke et angreb med energivåben på Maui
Washington Post→ Manipulated video portrays a ‘sleepy’ Biden at Maui wildfire event
The actual video shows President Biden didn’t fall asleep,.