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How conspiracy theories about Spain’s deadly floods spread online
euronews (in English)
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19/11/2024
The tragedy that left over 200 people dead has sparked a deluge of disinformation, including claims that the extreme weather was artificially engineered.
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How conspiracies about Spain's floods spread online.
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Weeks after devastating flash floods claimed at least 200 lives in Spain, conspiracy theories
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continue to run rampant online.
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Social media users have falsely speculated that the tragedy was intentionally provoked
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and not a natural disaster, despite the Spanish weather agency warning four days in advance
00:31
that the torrential rain was on its way.
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These videos circulating online claim that vessels spotted off the Valencian coast artificially
00:40
altered the weather with high-frequency transmitters, causing excessive rainfall.
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They are falsely described as HAARP ships, referring to the Alaska-based HAARP program
00:51
that studies the upper layer of the Earth's atmosphere, but which cannot control or interfere
00:57
with the weather.
00:58
The ship in question in these videos is in fact a floating power plant called the Karadeniz
01:04
Powership Osman Khan, owned by Turkish firm Car Powership.
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We trace back the footage to this promotional video published by the company in 2017.
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News agency AFP verified the ship's position and found that it has been stationed in Ghana
01:21
since 2019.
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There is no evidence that it was seen near Valencia.
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Yet we found posts spreading this theory in at least six languages and often left unverified
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by the platforms.
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Other social media users have spread unfound claims that Morocco used these ships to cause
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the storm and destroy Spanish agricultural harvests in order to ship more Moroccan produce
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into Europe.
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This is just one example in a whole playbook of conspiracies that have been spreading since
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the tragedy.
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