The number of mentions went up from 16,200 to 134,000 within a week.

Conspiracy theorists say the recent earthquake in Venezuela and the heat waves in Europe and the U.S. as evidence that the ...

After Hurricane Ian ravaged the Caribbean and southeastern U.S. at the end of September, a years-old conspiracy theory about the government being able to control weather resurfaced on social media.

A humanitarian crisis is developing in Venezuela after twin earthquakes on June 24, 2026 killed and injured thousands of ...

A Jan. 16 Instagram post (direct link, archive link) claims unnamed actors are artificially creating large-scale, destructive weather events. “First they aerosolize the sky with nanoparticles, then ...

The High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program, or HAARP, uses radio waves to study the atmosphere. It cannot be used to manipulate the weather or cause disasters such as earthquakes. Turkey sits ...

Still, conspiracy theories that might once have been brushed aside have gained new life amid the enormous environmental disaster hitting the region. Social media users are sharing theories discredited ...

The video claiming to show the High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program being destroyed is from a protest at a farm in Brazil, during which electrical towers were knocked down. There have been ...

A Jan. 12 Instagram post (direct link, archive link) questions if the weather was being controlled to affect the results of the Iowa Caucuses. "Is the Deep State activating HAARP to disrupt the Iowa ...