“Marines caught FEMA operatives piling corpses into a mass gravesite at the Maui Forest Reserve.”
Social media posts
in a TikTok video. Claim dated 23 Aug 2023.
PolitiFact rated thisPants on Fire
What PolitiFact found
This story about Federal Emergency Management Agency employees burying Hawaii wildfire victims in a "mass gravesite" was fabricated.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 23 August 2023. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 31 August 2023, 8 days later. Its rating was “Pants on Fire”.
Where the claim appeared
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