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The claim: Former CIA director admits plan for geoengineering and ‘chemtrails’ An April 5 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) features a video of former CIA Director John Brennan giving a speech. “Geoengineering,” reads the text in the video. “No longer
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How a rare and beautiful atmospheric and aerodynamic phenomenon is fuelling wild conspiracy theories. Aeronautical expert and aviation photographer Dr RON SMITH FRAeS explains how fictional ‘chemtrails’ are being confused with iridescent contrails. Dip into any social media account that
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The claim: Chemtrails are intended to ‘protect us from climate change’ An April 3 Instagram post (direct link, archive link) shows a video of a blue sky with a white contrail streaking across it. “Blocking the sun…AGAIN to protect us from ‘climate
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A post on Facebook, shared more than 600 times, claims to show the difference between contrails—the white lines of water vapour sometimes seen trailing aircraft—and “chemtrails”. Below a caption which says “chemtrail spotting 101”, the post claims to show two
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Morgellons test using cranberry juice pulls out nanoparticles from chemtrails and air pollution Incorrect: Precipitates formed in berry juices, like cranberry juice, after being swished around in the mouth are the result of a long-recognized chemical reaction between tannins in
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Copyright AFP 2017-2023. All rights reserved. A video shared across social media claims Mexico has banned “chemtrails,” suggesting this confirms the widespread conspiracy theory that the skies are being sprayed with chemicals to harm people. The claim is false; the
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The claim: Mexico is banning solar geoengineering, chemtrails A Jan. 19 Instagram video (direct link, archive link) connects the Mexican government’s recent prohibition of solar geoengineering – or technologies used to reflect sunlight back to space – with a decades-old conspiracy theory. “Mexico is
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The claim: Climate change is ‘actually geoengineering’; weather modified by ‘chemtrails’ A Feb. 16 Instagram post (direct link, archived link) features a screenshot of a tweet from 2021 about climate change. “I don’t know who need (sic) to hear this but
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The researchers analysed tweets 2009 and 2021 tagged with #geoengineering. They used a combination of natural language processing, deep learning and network analysis to explore how public emotions, perceptions and attitudes have changed over a 13-year period. The researchers found
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