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TikTok posts
stated on March 26, 2025 in TikTok videos:

Videos show tornadoes hitting Seattle on March 26 and 27.

By Jeff Cercone • March 28, 2025

Threads posts
stated on November 1, 2024 in a Threads post:

Video shows 8.0 magnitude earthquake in Oregon.

By Jeff Cercone • November 8, 2024

Marjorie Taylor Greene
stated on October 7, 2024 in a post on X:

Patents dating back to the 1800s show that people can control the weather.

By Madison Czopek • October 10, 2024

Facebook posts
stated on October 6, 2024 in a Facebook post:

“They create hurricanes via cloud seeding” and “direct them where they want the Hurricane to go!”

By Jeff Cercone • October 10, 2024

Instagram posts
stated on October 6, 2024 in Instagram posts:

Video shows “geoengineering happening” as Hurricane Milton approaches Florida.

By Loreben Tuquero • October 8, 2024

Donald Trump
stated on October 4, 2024 in a conversation with reporters:

The Biden administration stole $1 billion “from FEMA to use it for illegal migrants. … And FEMA is now busted. They don’t have any money.”

By Amy Sherman, Maria Ramirez Uribe • October 8, 2024

Instagram posts
stated on September 25, 2024 in an Instagram post:

Hurricane Helene was the product of intentional weather modification.

By Loreben Tuquero • September 27, 2024

Facebook posts
stated on April 8, 2024 in a Facebook post:

The solar eclipse path was “full of chemtraiIs.”

By Jeff Cercone • April 10, 2024

Instagram posts
stated on November 6, 2023 in an Instagram post:

"Acapulco destroyed by yet another directed weather attack!”

By Jeff Cercone • November 9, 2023

Instagram posts
stated on October 1, 2022 in Instagram post:

COVID was "so bad one year, they just forgot to give us a hurricane? What’s really going on here.”

By Michael Majchrowicz • October 7, 2022

Instagram posts
stated on September 29, 2022 in a post:

Hurricane Ian was orchestrated as part of a pandemic-related conspiracy to devastate Floridians.

By Gabrielle Settles • September 30, 2022

Instagram posts
stated on September 28, 2022 in a video:

"Walrus seen on Florida streets after Hurricane Ian hits land."

By Gabrielle Settles • September 29, 2022

Instagram posts
stated on September 27, 2022 in a post:

“All weather is artificially controlled.”

By Gabrielle Settles • September 29, 2022

Facebook posts
stated on July 29, 2022 in a Facebook post:

"The Sun is out of place, the Moon is out of place and the stars are out of place. The compasses are off" because of a shift in the Earth’s poles.

By Grace Abels • August 3, 2022

Facebook posts
stated on February 17, 2021 in Facebook posts:

The snow is government-generated or fake.

By Noah Y. Kim • February 19, 2021

Tucker Carlson
stated on February 16, 2021 in a TV segment:

“Unbeknownst to most people, the Green New Deal came to Texas; the power grid in the state became totally reliant on windmills.”

By Noah Y. Kim • February 17, 2021

Facebook posts
stated on February 15, 2021 in a text post:

Says Joe Biden planned a winter storm as "warfare, an attack on Texas by altering the jet stream."

By Daniel Funke • February 16, 2021

Facebook posts
stated on September 1, 2019 in a Facebook post:

Says a Donald Trump tweet credited Gov. Ron DeSantis for Hurricane Dorian’s path away from Florida.

By Daniel Funke • September 6, 2019

Donald Trump
stated on September 4, 2019 in a tweet:

Originally "almost all models predicted" Dorian would hit Alabama.

By Amy Sherman • September 5, 2019

Bloggers
stated on September 13, 2018 in in a blog post:

"Myrtle Beach man who shot at Hurricane Florence dies after bullet ricochets."

By Kyra Haas • September 19, 2018

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