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Meteorologists Get Death Threats as Hurricane Milton Conspiracy Theories Thrive
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2024-10-10 at 9:26 PM UTCMeteorologists Get Death Threats as Hurricane Milton Conspiracy Theories Thrive
“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.” -
2024-10-10 at 9:40 PM UTCI heard on TikTok that if you watch the News the government will know and then because you used the News for information about the Hurricane Barack Huessein Obama will come and live at your house as an official squatter for 9-12 months.
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2024-10-10 at 9:41 PM UTCso don't watch the news, only tiktok
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2024-10-10 at 9:49 PM UTCThe conspiracy theories are true bro, I was made in a lab.
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2024-10-10 at 9:53 PM UTCFluttershy First Alt
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2024-10-10 at 9:54 PM UTCit was the incorrect syntax that tripped u up. But you'll get better, bro. ***
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2024-10-11 at 12:45 PM UTCDeath threats
Only a weak willed drama llama mil/ennial or zoomer but take them seriously.
"If you eat that last slice of pizza I'll kill you!"
"I'M CALLING THE POLICE!!! YOU CAN'T THREATEN ME" -
2024-10-11 at 2:04 PM UTC
“For me to post a hurricane forecast and for people to accuse me of creating the hurricane by working for some secret Illuminati entity is disappointing and distressing, and it’s resulting in a decrease in public trust,” says Cappucci. He says he hasn’t slept in multiple days and is exhausted. This past week he received hundreds of messages from people accusing him of modifying the weather and creating hurricanes from space lasers.
“Ignorance is becoming socially acceptable. Forty or 50 years ago, if I told you I thought the moon was pretend, people would have laughed at me. Now, people are bonding over these incredibly fringe viewpoints.” -
2024-10-11 at 2:24 PM UTCgood
fuck meteorologists -
2024-10-11 at 2:38 PM UTC
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2024-10-11 at 3:35 PM UTC