Threats – Confusion reigns over the assistance provided to disaster victims, with the risk of dissuading some of them from seeking help. The situation is such that federal agents and meteorologists have received death threats
She expected to receive advice, certainly not to see a debate open on the veracity of the aid provided to the victims. Monday, when this resident of a rural town of North Carolina asks other residents of the town, which has been hit hard by the passage of Hurricane Helene ten days earlier, when they received their federal assistance check, commentators went into overdrive.
“You will have to repay”, warn him immediately from the residents of Swannanoa, in the town’s Facebook group. False, retort others who are responsible for fact-checkingthe aid provided by the federal government “is not a loan.” A woman gets carried away, calling FEMA, the federal agency responsible for providing disaster relief, “the devil”. Quickly, 125 comments piled up under this post, which was originally just a request to share experiences. Comments relaying false information end up being mostly deleted.
800 kilometers away, in Florida, he’s a firefighter who used Facebook pour counter rumors relayed in his town of Pensacola. “I’m trying to save m(…) Read more on 20minutes
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