"If you are a weatherperson, you’re a target.

Clive Thompson

"If you are a weatherperson, you’re a target. The same goes for journalists, election workers, scientists, doctors, and first responders. These jobs are different, but the thing they share is that they all must attend to and describe the world as it is. This makes them dangerous to people who cannot abide by the agonizing constraints of reality"

Charlie Warzel on the flood of hurricane-related bullshit

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/10/hurricane-milton-conspiracies-misinformation/680221/

Unpaywalled: https://archive.is/PhRvu