{"id":111392,"date":"2024-10-07T11:04:09","date_gmt":"2024-10-07T04:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=111392"},"modified":"2024-10-07T11:04:09","modified_gmt":"2024-10-07T04:04:09","slug":"democrats-and-republicans-both-say-misinformation-hurts-helene-relief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=111392","title":{"rendered":"Democrats and Republicans Both Say Misinformation Hurts Helene Relief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<ul class=\"summary-list\">\n<li>Officials are urging people to stop spreading misinformation amid Hurricane Helene recovery efforts.<\/li>\n<li>Both Republicans and Democrats have called out misinformation and false rumors.<\/li>\n<li>Donald Trump and Elon Musk have amplified false claims.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!-- Excluded mobile ad on desktop --><\/p>\n<div class=\"inline-newsletter-signup&#10;                          headline-regular loading&#10;                          insider-today\" id=\"formContainer\" data-component-type=\"inline-newsletter-module\" data-event-label=\"insider_today\" data-newsletter-id=\"1\" data-newsletter-title=\"Insider Today\" data-acq-source=\"politicsinlinesignup\" data-track-view=\"{&quot;product_field&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;,&quot;element_name&quot;:&quot;inline_newsletter&quot;}\">\n<section class=\"inline-newsletter-content\">\n<div class=\"success-container__mobile d-none\">\n<p>Thanks for signing up!<\/p>\n<p>\n                              Access your favorite topics in a personalized feed while you&#8217;re on the go.<br \/>\n                              <button class=\"rounded-button headline-semibold white-button download\" type=\"white\"><br \/>\n                                download the app<br \/>\n                              <\/button>      <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<form id=\"emailCapture\" action=\"javascript:void(0);\" method=\"POST\" novalidate=\"\">\n<div class=\"sign-up-tos headline-regular\" id=\"nlTos\">\n                                  By clicking \u201cSign Up\u201d, you accept our <a class=\"tos-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/www.insider-inc.com\/terms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Terms of Service<\/a> and <a class=\"tos-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/www.insider-inc.com\/privacy-policy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Privacy Policy<\/a>. You can opt-out at any time by visiting our Preferences page or by clicking &#8220;unsubscribe&#8221; at the bottom of the email.\n                              <\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"inline-newsletter-img-wrapper-desktop\">\n<div class=\"lazy-holder lazy-holder  has-transparency\" style=\"padding-top: calc(100% * 124 \/ 111)\">\n<p>                              <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy-image has-transparency\" viewbox=\"0 0 1 1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/public\/assets\/rebrand\/newsletter-bull.png\" alt=\"Bull\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                              <noscript><br \/>\n                                  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/public\/assets\/rebrand\/newsletter-bull.png\"\/><br \/>\n                              <\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As rescue workers respond to the destruction in North Carolina after <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/hurricane-helene-north-carolina-flood-insurance-2024-10\" data-analytics-product-module=\"body_link\" rel=\"noopener\">Hurricane Helene<\/a>, government officials on both sides of the aisle are calling for a misinformation cease-fire.<\/p>\n<p>Since the hurricane made <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/hurricane-helene-slams-florida-power-outages-flooding-2024-9\" data-analytics-product-module=\"body_link\" rel=\"noopener\">landfall in Florida<\/a> and swept up<strong> <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/analysts-estimate-up-to-34-billion-damage-from-hurricane-helene-2024-10\" data-analytics-product-module=\"body_link\" rel=\"noopener\">to the Carolinas<\/a>, the storm itself has been swept up in<strong> <\/strong>another powerful force: American politics in a presidential election year.<\/p>\n<p>Some social media users are sharing unsubstantiated claims, some accompanied by fake<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>AI-generated photos, criticizing the response from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the government&#8217;s disaster relief group, and, by extension, the administration of President Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not necessarily unusual for emergency situations to be breeding grounds for mis- and disinformation, but I do think we&#8217;ve seen a particularly large amount of false claims proliferating at this time,&#8221; Mekela Panditharatne, a<strong> <\/strong>senior counsel at the Brennan Center for Justice, a nonprofit policy institute at New York University&#8217;s School of Law, told Business Insider. &#8220;I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s a coincidence that it&#8217;s so close to a very consequential national election.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!-- Excluded mobile ad on desktop --><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/category\/elon-musk\" data-analytics-product-module=\"body_link\" rel=\"noopener\">Elon Musk<\/a>, the billionaire owner of X and a <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/elon-musk-donald-trump-rally-butler-pennsylvania-assassination-attempt-2024-10\" data-analytics-product-module=\"body_link\" rel=\"noopener\">vocal supporter of former President Donald Trump<\/a>, has posted on his social media network saying that &#8220;<a target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1842284913279586447\" data-analytics-product-module=\"body_link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">FEMA is both failing to help AND won&#8217;t let others help<\/a>&#8221; and has reposted similar claims from others.<\/p>\n<p>Musk shared another claim that Asheville, North Carolina&#8217;s airspace had been closed to block recovery efforts, prompting a fact-check from Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who said the Federal Aviation Administration was not shutting down the airspace. Buttigieg <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SecretaryPete\/status\/1842271678274928964\" data-analytics-product-module=\"body_link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">told<\/a> Musk to call him with any issues, and after they <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/inside-with-jen-psaki\/watch\/-he-called-buttigieg-reveals-details-of-conversation-with-elon-musk-about-storm-response-221029445906\" data-analytics-product-module=\"body_link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">spoke on the phone<\/a>, Musk posted that flights were underway and <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1842350122899739050\" data-analytics-product-module=\"body_link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">thanked<\/a> Buttigieg.<\/p>\n<section class=\"dad-related-posts-component at-inline related-posts \" data-component-type=\"dad-related-posts\" data-delay-third-party-scripts=\"true\" data-size=\"2\" data-container-index=\"in_content_recirc_1\" data-included-verticals=\"politics\" data-placement=\"inline\" data-prevent-collision=\"true\" data-excluded-verticals=\"bi-video\" data-root-margin=\"250px 0px\" data-track-view=\"{&quot;event&quot;:&quot;module_in_view&quot;,&quot;element_name&quot;:&quot;in_content_recirc&quot;,&quot;subscription_experience&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;,&quot;product_field&quot;:&quot;in_content_recirc_1&quot;}\">\n<p><h2 class=\"content-recommendations-title headline-semibold ignore-typography \">\n                                Related stories<br \/>\n                              <\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p>Trump has seized on the disaster to criticize the Biden administration and, by extension, his opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, saying the Biden administration &#8220;stole the FEMA money&#8221; and &#8220;spent it all on illegal migrants,&#8221; the Washington Post reported.<\/p>\n<p>His comments came after Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said FEMA would need more money from Congress to get it through the rest of hurricane season.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Excluded mobile ad on desktop --><\/p>\n<p>A <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2024\/10\/04\/no-biden-didnt-take-fema-relief-money-use-migrants-trump-did\/\" data-analytics-product-module=\"body_link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Washington Post<\/a> investigation found no evidence that the Biden administration used disaster relief funds on the migrant crisis. However, amid hurricane season in 2019, Trump himself approved using $155 million<strong> <\/strong>in disaster relief funds<strong> <\/strong>for immigration detention at the border, the Post reported.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"27fd660a-73db-4a3c-9a26-23e6b84ae71d\" data-toc-id=\"27fd660a-73db-4a3c-9a26-23e6b84ae71d\">Bipartisan calls to stop spreading &#8216;junk&#8217; information<\/h2>\n<p>Following the spike in false rumors, FEMA created a searchable <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fema.gov\/disaster\/current\/hurricane-helene\/rumor-response\" data-analytics-product-module=\"body_link\" rel=\"noopener\">fact-checking page<\/a> to tackle misinformation about the relief efforts. In North Carolina, the Department of Public Safety also shared a fact-check on social media, which Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper has reposted.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans have also joined the fight against the false information. Kevin Corbin, a Republican member of the North Carolina Senate, issued a plea on <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/kevin.corbin\/posts\/pfbid02VZiZFjsikbNeD3AKwkkpv5nnXpmkxWr5sJRG1G51D6yN82NvywWVaA8M8XjcNdeol\" data-analytics-product-module=\"body_link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> for people to stop spreading &#8220;conspiracy theory junk.&#8221; He listed bizarre claims that he said he and other officials have heard, ranging from accusations that &#8220;FEMA is stealing money from donations&#8221; to the &#8220;government is controlling the weather from Antarctica.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is just a distraction to people trying to do their job,&#8221; Corbin wrote.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Excluded mobile ad on desktop --><\/p>\n<figure class=\"figure image-figure-image   \" data-type=\"img\" data-e2e-name=\"image-figure-image\" data-media-container=\"image\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\">\n<div class=\"lazy-holder \" style=\"padding-top: calc(100% * 3050 \/ 4575)\">\n<p>                          <meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/67030d5f198738e3a70e94bd\"\/><br \/>\n                          <img xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"lazy-image \" encoding=\"UTF-8\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" data-content-type=\"image\/jpeg\" srcs=\"{&quot;https:\/\/i.insider.com\/67030d5f198738e3a70e94bd&quot;:{&quot;contentType&quot;:&quot;image\/jpeg&quot;,&quot;aspectRatioW&quot;:4575,&quot;aspectRatioH&quot;:3050}}\" alt=\"A young man hands supplies down to a woman from the bed of a truck amid hurricane recovery efforts.\"\/>\n                        <\/div>\n<p>                          <span class=\"image-source-caption \"><figcaption class=\"image-caption headline-semibold\" data-e2e-name=\"image-caption\">\n                                  Misinformation hinders genuine recovery efforts, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>                          <span class=\"image-source headline-regular\" data-e2e-name=\"image-source\" itemprop=\"creditText\"><br \/>\n                          <a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.ap.org\/detail\/Election2024NorthCarolina\/91f8cb5fd0be44c98e077b2a92e2e054\/photo?Query=north%20carolina%20hurricane&amp;mediaType=photo&amp;sortBy=arrivaldatetime:desc&amp;dateRange=Anytime&amp;totalCount=25370&amp;currentItemNo=1\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"image-source-link not-content-link\"><br \/>\n                          Chris Carlson\/AP<br \/>\n                          <\/a><br \/>\n                          <\/span><br \/>\n                                <\/figcaption><\/span><br \/>\n                          <\/figure>\n<p>US Sen. Thom Tillis, also a Republican, echoed Corbin&#8217;s comments on &#8220;Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan&#8221;<strong><em> <\/em><\/strong>on <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/thom-tillis-senator-north-carolina-face-the-nation-transcript-10-06-2024\/\" data-analytics-product-module=\"body_link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CBS News<\/a> on Sunday. He said many of the claims are &#8220;not even from people on the ground&#8221; and complicate rescue and recovery operations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<span>It&#8217;s at the expense of the hard-working first responders and people that are just trying to recover their life<\/span>,&#8221; Tillis said. &#8220;Quite honestly, most of what I&#8217;ve seen out there is a distraction and not helping the core of the effort right here, which is to save lives and start rebuilding.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Panditharatne told BI<strong> <\/strong>that the spread of misinformation can &#8220;dissuade people from seeking the assistance that they need in this time of crisis.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s perfectly legitimate to express an opinion or criticize the sufficiency of a response, but a number of the claims that we are seeing, particularly from high profile actors and politicians, are baseless, and they&#8217;re contradicting verifiable facts or unsubstantiated by evidence,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Where that is the case, I think it can divert public information and resources and demoralize officials on the ground.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!-- Excluded mobile ad on desktop --><\/p>\n<p>In a crisis, there may be gaps in available information, creating a vacuum for misinformation to &#8220;flood in to fill the void,&#8221; Panditharatne said. However, she added that&#8217;s not an excuse.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think anyone like Musk, who has a significant influence over the information ecosystem, should feel a sense of responsibility to promote information that doesn&#8217;t undermine people&#8217;s ability to access the aid that they need or<strong> <\/strong>undermine officials&#8217; response to a crisis,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>The Trump campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Representatives for X also did not immediately respond.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>window.allScripts = window.allScripts || []; window.allScripts.push({ type: \"load\", script: \"%3Cscript%20id%3D%22meta-pixel-script%22%3E(()%3D%3E%7Bvar%20e%3D%7B69531%3A()%3D%3E%7Bvar%20e%2Cn%2Cr%2Ct%2Co%2Ci%3Bfunction%20s()%7Bwindow.Fenrir%3F.cm%3F.ccpaApplies%26%26%22ACCEPT%22%3D%3D%3Dwindow.Fenrir%3F.cm%3F.userConsent.OPT_OUT%3Ffbq(%22dataProcessingOptions%22%2C%5B%22LDU%22%5D%2C0%2C0)%3Afbq(%22dataProcessingOptions%22%2C%5B%5D)%2Cfbq(%22init%22%2C%221988166924554892%22)%2Cfbq(%22track%22%2C%22PageView%22)%7De%3Dwindow%2Cn%3Ddocument%2Cr%3D%22script%22%2Ce.fbq%7C%7C(t%3De.fbq%3Dfunction()%7Bt.callMethod%3Ft.callMethod.apply(t%2Carguments)%3At.queue.push(arguments)%7D%2Ce._fbq%7C%7C(e._fbq%3Dt)%2Ct.push%3Dt%2Ct.loaded%3D!0%2Ct.version%3D%222.0%22%2Ct.queue%3D%5B%5D%2C(o%3Dn.createElement(r)).async%3D!0%2Co.src%3D%22https%3A%2F%2Fconnect.facebook.net%2Fen_US%2Ffbevents.js%22%2C(i%3Dn.getElementsByTagName(r)%5B0%5D).parentNode.insertBefore(o%2Ci))%2Cwindow.Fenrir%3F.cm%3F.cmStarted%26%26window.Fenrir%3F.cm%3F.userConsent%3Fs()%3AsetTimeout(s%2C1e3)%7D%7D%2Cn%3D%7B%7D%3Bfunction%20r(t)%7Bvar%20o%3Dn%5Bt%5D%3Bif(void%200!%3D%3Do)return%20o.exports%3Bvar%20i%3Dn%5Bt%5D%3D%7Bexports%3A%7B%7D%7D%3Breturn%20e%5Bt%5D(i%2Ci.exports%2Cr)%2Ci.exports%7Dr.m%3De%2Cr.c%3Dn%2Cr.o%3D(e%2Cn)%3D%3EObject.prototype.hasOwnProperty.call(e%2Cn)%2C(()%3D%3E%7Br.S%3D%7B%7D%3Bvar%20e%3D%7B%7D%2Cn%3D%7B%7D%3Br.I%3D(t%2Co)%3D%3E%7Bo%7C%7C(o%3D%5B%5D)%3Bvar%20i%3Dn%5Bt%5D%3Bif(i%7C%7C(i%3Dn%5Bt%5D%3D%7B%7D)%2C!(o.indexOf(i)%3E%3D0))%7Bif(o.push(i)%2Ce%5Bt%5D)return%20e%5Bt%5D%3Br.o(r.S%2Ct)%7C%7C(r.S%5Bt%5D%3D%7B%7D)%3Br.S%5Bt%5D%3Bvar%20s%3D%5B%5D%3Breturn%20s.length%3Fe%5Bt%5D%3DPromise.all(s).then((()%3D%3Ee%5Bt%5D%3D1))%3Ae%5Bt%5D%3D1%7D%7D%7D)()%3Br(69531)%7D)()%3B%3C%2Fscript%3E\" });<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/hurricane-helene-relief-disinformation-misinformation-north-carolina-democrats-republicans-2024-10\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officials are urging people to stop spreading misinformation amid Hurricane Helene recovery efforts. 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