In the wake of Hurricane Helene, a wave of both AI-generated and human-driven misinformation continues to flood social media, distorting the reality of the recovery efforts and creating new, unfounded fears about Hurricane Milton.

According to the nonpartisan fact-checking site Politifact, social media has become ground zero for the spread of disinformation, amplifying false narratives since Hurricane Helene made landfall last month. And now, with Hurricane Milton slamming Florida’s Gulf Coast, a new outbreak of nonsense is sweeping X and Facebook.

Conspiracy theorists, perhaps emboldened by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green’s tweet last week that anonymous people “control the weather,” are now echoing her bizarre statement, claiming that the latest hurricane was man-made.