“Hawaii is being attacked by direct energy weapons.”
Social media posts
Instagram post. Claim dated 17 Aug 2023.
PolitiFact rated thisFalse
What PolitiFact found
Investigators have not yet determined a single cause for the fires in Maui, Hawaii, although attention is increasingly focused on the role downed power lines may have played.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 17 August 2023. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 21 August 2023, 4 days later. Its rating was “False”.
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