Malicious disinformation narratives about the devastating floods that hit southern Spain in late October 2024 continued to circulate and increase their impact across the EU.
Fact checkers from the EDMO network in most EU countries identified false claims according to which the storm that caused the disasters was created by human intervention through alleged geoengineering techniques or was deliberately caused by the destruction of dams in the Valencia region.
These conspiracy theories claim that the wave of destruction and death that hit Spain was deliberately caused by antennas, mysterious ships that supposedly caused storms with HAARP technologies, aircraft that had been spraying the atmosphere for days, and the demolition of dams promoted by the Spanish government and the EU.
Read the EDMO brief in more detail at this link.