HustleBitch, a right-wing account you may recognize from previous debunkers, tweeted Sunday the same baseless conspiracy theories, making similar connections to fires in Lahaina and Maui, Hawaii.

A theory emerged after the Maui wildfires in August 2023, where everything blue, such as blue-roofed homes, vehicles and recycling bins, was not damaged by the fires. The hypothesis suggests that a ...

This is not the first claim of its kind. When wildfires affected Maui, Hawaii, in August 2023 and then Texas in early 2024, some social media accounts claimed DEWs had been used to attack the area, ...

"Laser weapons can be programmed for different wavelengths," an Instagram video of the aftermath of the Maui fires reads. "There was something blue they didn’t want to burn." The Poynter ...

As deadly wildfires devastated a wide area of Los Angeles in early 2025, social media posts claimed that directed energy weapons ignited the blazes -- a conspiracy theory shared around similar ...

The narrative that trees remained unaffected because the fires were caused by some form of directed attack was also shared in August 2023 during the Maui, Hawaii, fires.

An all-access look at how Dan Hurley prepared UConn for Maui before the Huskies' disappointing loss to Memphis Go behind the scenes with UConn as it chases a third straight NCAA title, but took a ...

The Chinese government is ramping up its use of content generated by artificial intelligence (AI) as it seeks to further its geopolitical goals through misinformation, including targeting the ...

Other online claims baselessly alleged that directed energy weapons were used to start deadly fires that ravaged Maui in August. Wildfires there killed more than 100 people and destroyed thousands ...

Conspiracy theorists spent Thursday trying to claim President Joe Biden had accidentally “admitted” that directed-energy weapons were being used to start devastating wildfires like the one in ...

False claims about government attacks with directed energy weapons and certain homes painted blue being spared that first surfaced last year during devastating wildfires in Maui, Hawaii, are now ...