“Then,” she continued, “they started to fake disasters. Some were real, like the wildfires, but they were human-made. Others …” She looked at Tully. “It’s amazing what you could do even back then with video on social or the news. Tsunamis, hurricanes, floods … So much of it fake. People didn’t even bother checking, just shared it anyway. Some people thought it was overblown, claimed climate change wasn’t real. The more they did, the more angry and polarized everyone became, which created a vacuum.”
