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Officials on both sides of the aisle in North Carolina are urging people to stop spreading misinformation amid Hurricane Helene recovery efforts.
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00:00Officials on both sides of the aisle in North Carolina are urging people to stop spreading
00:04misinformation amid Hurricane Helene recovery efforts.
00:08Business Insider notes that some social media users are sharing unsubstantiated claims,
00:14some accompanied by fake, AI-generated photos, criticizing the response from FEMA and the
00:19Biden administration.
00:21The Democratic governor of the state, Roy Cooper, reposted a FEMA fact-checking page,
00:26and Republican Senate member Kevin Corbyn issued a plea on Facebook for people to stop
00:31spreading, quote, conspiracy theory junk.
00:34The Washington Post reports that Trump suggested that the Biden administration, quote, stole
00:39the FEMA money and, quote, spent it all on illegal migrants.
00:43A Washington Post investigation found no evidence that the Biden administration used disaster
00:49relief funds on the migrant crisis.

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