“Burning Man was a national emergency because it was flooded.”
Social media posts
Claim dated 3 Sep 2023.
PolitiFact rated thisFalse
What PolitiFact found
Flooding at the Burning Man festival in Nevada temporarily stranded thousands of attendees. We searched federal websites and found no evidence the situation had been declared a national emergency.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 3 September 2023. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 7 September 2023, 4 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Where the claim appeared
- Instagram posthttps://www.instagram.com/reel/CwwIa3GNLKk/?
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