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As the LA fires have hit the city,
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fake images and fake news have gone viral on social media,
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and it's misleading many.
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Brother, you know the one that got me,
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it was the AI generated pic of the Hollywood sign,
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you know, that engulfed in like flames,
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remember? No, you see that one?
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I was like, my parents,
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like,, my swagger I was sharing.
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it's not real. I was just there.
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I was there like that like.
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I'm like, what the heck,
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like, yeah, it was crazy like.
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No, yeah, I saw it and then I even see
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people again going to go check on it and they're like,
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guys, no, it's not real.
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But then like in addition to the AI pictures,
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there's also fake news running rampant on.
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obviously it's like, you know,
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the community notes on Twitter or X sorry are probably like going
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over time because there's so much fake news being posted on everywhere
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but you know those little notes like let me fact check
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but this post is actually from.
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30 years ago or this is completely fake or it's definitely much
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needed. So here are the claims that have been debunked.
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So the internet has claimed that Christine Crowley,
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LA's fire chief, was an unqualified DEI hired,
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but she actually has 20 years of experience and scored a top
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0.3% of the firefighter exam.
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passing with flying colors.
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that's wild. Like she's passionate about this.
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Like she knows what she's doing.
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So that's very much for this.
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There's another one. This one went around a lot.
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So Trump said LA wouldn't get federal disaster relief because FEMA is
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out of money. But I was waiting for.
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I was like. President Biden approved a $29 billion funding boost
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another thing in terms of money as well,
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like it's actually happening with GoFundMe scams.
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So you know, there's families who lost everything and start creating
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fundraisers, but scammers are imitating real GoFundMe pages and you know
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with the same pictures and bios.
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make sure, just do a couple of extras like sift through
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make sure it's a legit.
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Or say it's gonna go to.
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This is what they say like these kind of disasters,
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you see the good in people,
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but you also see the worst in people,
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and they are literally people out there that's taking what's going on
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right now as an opportunity to,
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you know, so like you guys be careful out there,
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make sure you do your research before donating to an EcoFundMe.
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Yeah, and I saw this video online.
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They said like before you start sharing,
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take a second, read the whole post,
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even the caption because sometimes like you know those memes where it's
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like, oh, so and so is like dead.
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what? And you literally keep scrolling.
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It's like there's a parody page or it's like the Instagram handle
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is like not real news.
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It's like just take a,
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take a beat and you know check that and then proceed how
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you want to caution.
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but definitely, definitely if you can donate to GoFundMe,
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just make sure. Mhm.
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