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A Flash Flood Devastated Texas. Conspiracy Theories Quickly Followed

TEXAS, JUL 08 – Meteorologists and federal agencies say cloud seeding cannot cause extreme flooding, which resulted from a stalled weather system and tropical moisture that dropped over 12 inches of rain.

  • Flash floods in the Texas Hill Country on July 4 resulted in the deaths of more than 100 people, among them approximately two dozen children from a summer camp.
  • The floods followed a cloud seeding operation by Rainmaker Technology Corp. on July 2, but experts and officials state cloud seeding played no role in the disaster.
  • Rainmaker is a California-based company funded partly by Peter Thiel that uses cloud seeding to boost rainfall over small areas as regulated by Texas laws since 1967.
  • Senior meteorologist Matthew Cappucci emphasized that cloud seeding had no impact on the severe floods in Texas, stating that fundamental principles of physics make this clear, and experts concur that the event was an extraordinarily rare flood, occurring roughly once every 500 years.
  • During the current legislative session, Republican senators Bryan Hughes and Tan Parker introduced bill SB 1154 aiming to prohibit weather modification activities, while researchers attribute the flooding primarily to climate change impacts.
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Texas, U.S. Disinformation has spread rapidly on social media following catastrophic floods in Texas, United States. Both left and right-wing users have spread false claims, diverting attention from the tragedy that has left more than 100 dead and dozens missing.More than two dozen girls from a summer camp are included in the dead. Supporters, in addition, are looking for dozens of people reported missing. Several left-wing accounts on platform …

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After the floods in Texas, which killed more than a hundred people, misinformation from all sides of politics spread over social networks.

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freedommemes.com broke the news in on Monday, July 7, 2025.
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