“Video shows "HAARP gets destroyed” by protesters.”
Social media posts
Instagram. Claim dated 8 Apr 2023.
PolitiFact rated thisFalse
What PolitiFact found
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.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 8 April 2023. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 14 April 2023, 6 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Where the claim appeared
- Saved copy of the posthttps://ghostarchive.org/iarchive/instagram/humanities_truth_/3076572578549529064
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