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AI-created content with captions claiming to show real events are a growing form of misinformation we see being shared online, and we have previously fact checked fake images of the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on a ventilator and another of police officers in the UK supposedly kneeling in front of men in Islamic dress.
At an Oct. 11 campaign rally in Aurora, Colorado, he said heâd invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to expedite gang membersâ removal and to "target and dismantle every migrant criminal network operating on American soil."
For the purposes of that scheme, weâve rated this claim as altered because the original image has been edited to include Kamala Harrisâs face.
Additionally, the video circulating on social media has been cropped, which has cut out visible wires and audio hardware around her chair, which Ms Harris also picks up and adjusts during the longer clip, in which she talks about a recipe for cooking a turkey.
Dr Ciaran Beggan at the British Geological Society also told us that HAARP uses âtinyâ amounts of power to transmit radio waves into the atmosphere, which would be a fraction of that needed to artificially create a hurricane.
A Sept. 11 New York Times article echoed that point, saying the impact of the Chinese campaign after the Maui fires "is difficult to measure, though early indications suggest that few social media users engaged with the most outlandish of the conspiracy theories."
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicted 17 to 25 storms with winds of 39 miles per hour or higher would hit the United States during the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season, which runs June 1 to Nov. 30.
Some who made the claim got the inaccurate information from an Oct.1 Federalist story that misleadingly said: âThe Biden-Harris administration took more than a billion tax dollars that had been allocated to the agency responsible for American disaster relief and used it to offer services for illegal immigrants.â
Colorado Rep. Greg Lopez released a statement that said he could not vote for a bill that "would extend the federal governmentâs current, exorbitant spending levels with no cuts or considerations for the elimination of expired programs."
CBS Newsâ Bill Whitaker pressed Harris on how she would pay for promises such as an expanded child tax credit and aid to small-business startups.
Trump has also floated several more targeted tax cuts, including ending taxation on Social Security benefits, tips and overtime work.
Harris did say that at the time, but the Hill reported that her campaign said she wanted to replace the TCJA with âlegislation she has proposed that would involve nearly $3 trillion in refundable tax cuts primarily affecting the middle class.â