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Many households have turned to crowdfunding for repairs but worry that the crush of disinformation will hamper their appeals for help.

In the days and weeks after hurricanes Helene and Milton slammed the Southeast, communities are looking to crowdfund for repairs as conspiracy theories dog efforts to rebuild.

Since the storms hit, the Biden administration has sought to counter false accusations that it is diverting federal relief funds to immigrants, a claim advanced by some Republican politicians, including former President Donald Trump.

A flurry of dubious pleas for crowdfunding — including a viral TikTok video by a man accusing the Federal Emergency Management Agency of evicting him from his Asheville, North Carolina, business — have added to the swirl of false claims, threatening to sap public focus from those who actually need help.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 weeks ago

False info? Like this shit?: https://www.google.com/search?q=video+of+%22Rotor+wipe+in+North+Carolina&rlz=1CALAYK_enUS1071&oq=video+of+%22Rotor+wipe+in+North+Carolina&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIHCAEQIRigATIHCAIQIRigATIHCAMQIRigATIHCAQQIRirAtIBCjMxMjkxajBqMTWoAgiwAgE&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:d5dd7ebe,vid:kAfs0fgoqCA,st:0

There was another video of this from another angle. It's called a "rotor wash". Those fuckheads did it on purpose. They said they were "trying to land to deliver some generators". Where were the generators then? Why did they fly off after that instead of finding an appropriate place to land to offload these mysterious generators? The reason that these assholes are trying to block aid is that the feds have deals with "aproved" aid providers, which most likely involve kickbacks/donations to certain political groups.