Someone with the username MattWallace888, who had more than two million followers, wrote that “elites” had engaged in “weather modification” to target counties that voted for Trump in the last election. I thought the idea was too crazy even for the most gullible, but his tweet received more than eleven million views. In a second post, he overlaid the storm’s path on a map of the 2020 election results, attempting to “prove” his crazy theory. The conspiracy took off on X and then TikTok, with videos there viewed more than a million times.
