The deadly June 2026 Venezuela earthquakes were not natural but were triggered on purpose by a laser or directed-energy weapon, with viral clips of scanning red beams and collapsing towers offered as proof
By Colin PetersonJuly 27, 2026
Where the evidence lands: ContradictedThat the June 24, 2026 Venezuela earthquakes were artificially triggered by a directed-energy or laser weapon (variously attributed to a US 'geographic weapon' or the HAARP facility in Alaska) rather than by natural tectonic forces, and that specific viral videos, of scanning red beams, of colliding towers, of buildings collapsing, are authentic footage that proves it.
Contradicted. The earthquakes were real and deadly. What this file rates are two separate claims about them, both debunked: that the quakes were artificially caused by a laser or directed-energy weapon (versions blame a US 'geographic weapon' or the HAARP facility in Alaska), and that the viral clips shared as proof are authentic footage of the event. USGS attributes the June 24, 2026 doublet to ordinary shallow strike-slip faulting on the Caribbean-South American plate boundary; seismologists say no one can intentionally trigger a magnitude-7 earthquake, and induced quakes top out around the mid-5 range. Working independently, PolitiFact, Poynter, AFP, France 24, AAP, Full Fact, CyberPeace and others traced the 'proof' to AI-generated video, a 2023 Teardown video-game simulation, a 2023 building demolition in Turkey, a 2021 Caracas metro fire, and a 'laser beam' montage posted online months before the quake. The disaster is genuine and its victims are real; the weapon story and the clips behind it are not.
Believed by: Individual fake clips drew millions of views before being labeled: one 'two towers' video alone passed 5.5 million views on X, and the 'laser beam' montage spread widely through UFO and conspiracy accounts. HAARP and 'US weapon' posts trended across X, TikTok and Telegram as the death toll climbed.
The claim this file tracks has now been named directly by a wire service. On 13 August the Associated Press published a FACT FOCUS on posts blaming the Colombia earthquake on HAARP, the Alaskan ionospheric research programme, which is the same attribution that attached to the Venezuela quakes and the reason this file exists. What the AP piece adds is a mechanism argument rather than a flat denial, and two of its numbers are worth keeping. The US Geological Survey attributes the quake primarily to strike-slip faulting, with an epicentre in Colombia's Pacific region along the Ring of Fire. Suzan Van der Lee, a seismologist at Northwestern University, told AP that no human endeavour caused it, and gave the figure that does the work: the rupture was 110 kilometres deep, at least ten times deeper than any earthquake humans have ever induced. She was careful about the boundary, noting that shallow-crust activity such as gas extraction or wastewater injection genuinely has produced small to moderate quakes, so the honest question is not whether people can ever affect seismicity but whether anything could reach that depth. Dean Whitman, a geophysicist at Florida International University, said there is zero physical basis for radio transmissions affecting earthquakes, pointing out that the energy released dwarfed even the largest hydrogen bombs and was millions of times larger than HAARP's array produces, that the equipment points upward rather than down, and that the physics involved is different in kind. Recorded as the reporting it is. This file continues to accuse nobody of anything, and nothing here is intended to draw attention from a rescue and recovery effort still under way. source →
A number to record before it becomes an argument. NPR reported from Pereira early on 12 August that President Abelardo de la Espriella had put the toll at at least 181 killed and 2,595 injured in the west of the country, with at least 195 people still missing, and that civilian-run databases put the missing figure closer to 4,000. Rescue teams were working in Cali, Pereira, Manizales and Quibdo against the 48 to 72 hour window in which survivors are usually found, and NPR notes the response is complicated by deep poverty and by decades of displacement from civil conflict. That twenty-fold gap between an official count and a civilian one is not evidence of concealment, and this file does not present it as any. Official tallies in a disaster count confirmed reports through one channel and lag badly in the first days; crowd-sourced lists gather every name anyone has failed to reach, and double-count. Both numbers are doing what they are built to do. The reason to log it here is that a discrepancy of that size is the standard raw material for a claim that the real toll is being suppressed, and when that claim arrives it will be answered better by having recorded where both figures came from than by arguing about it afterwards. source →
The claim has crossed a border, and in doing so it has taken a shape that answers itself. A magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck western Colombia at 07:34 local time on 10 August. The BBC reports more than 180 people confirmed dead, most in Cali and Pereira, an official toll of 181 against an aggregated local-official figure that may exceed 240, almost 2,600 injured, close to 200 still missing, more than 1,100 homes destroyed and more than 8,000 damaged, with a state of emergency declared and people sleeping outdoors in both cities. Rescue work was still going on as this entry was written, and nothing below is meant to distract from it. Within a day, posts were framing the two events as one sequence: Venezuela, then Colombia, and next Ecuador. Maldita.es published a roundup on 11 August answering it with the only fact that matters for a claim of that shape. Earthquakes cannot be predicted. The Colombian Geological Service says no scientifically proven method exists to predict where a quake will occur or how strong it will be, and its spokesperson told RTVE that predicting them is impossible; the US Geological Survey says no scientist has ever predicted a major earthquake; Spain's Instituto Geografico Nacional says no method exists to predict the time, place and magnitude. A sequence claim is a prediction claim wearing a pattern as a disguise, and the capability it quietly assumes is the one capability that does not exist. The same roundup traces three of the images carrying the story, and the mechanism is the one this file has documented from the start: a video of a school shaking is from Tubalan primary school in Davao Occidental in the Philippines, filmed during the magnitude 7.8 quake of 8 June; a clip of workers on a building under construction is from Quetzaltenango in Guatemala on 17 July; and an image of the Monumento a la Resistencia in Cali lying collapsed is AI-generated, carrying a SynthID watermark and showing an environment that does not match the real monument, per a check by the Colombian outlet La Silla Vacia. The verdict is unchanged and the reason is unchanged with it. source →
For the wider record, and running back before this file's own window: the synthetic-media problem around Venezuela did not begin with the earthquakes. NBC News, reviewing the first week of January 2026, found that the US operation that captured Nicolás Maduro drew AI-generated images, recycled video and altered photographs within hours, to the point that Elon Musk reposted what the outlet described as an apparently AI-generated clip of Venezuelans thanking the United States. Jeff Hancock of the Stanford Social Media Lab argues the cumulative effect is an erosion of the ordinary habit of believing what you see until given a reason not to, and warns that eyeballing an image for artifacts is becoming useless as a test. That is the environment these HAARP clips landed in six months later, and it explains why footage lifted from a video game could travel as evidence. It says nothing about the physics, which is unchanged: the earthquakes were tectonic, and the verdict here stands. source →
The claim looks less like a local rumor and more like one node in a wider operation. France 24 reported in late July on foreign state actors exploiting climate and disaster events to push disinformation, and tracking by the misinformation monitor NewsGuard found the same HAARP explanation deployed in parallel across two unrelated crises: these earthquakes and the record heatwaves across Europe. The European External Action Service convened a conference on countering foreign information manipulation over the same period. Be clear about what this does and does not establish. It is evidence about the campaign, that the claim was amplified deliberately and at scale rather than spreading on its own. It is not evidence about HAARP, which still cannot cause an earthquake, and the verdict here is unchanged. source →
More than a month after the quakes, the 'laser weapon' and HAARP clips are still recirculating under new captions, even as the confirmed cause remains natural tectonic faulting and the identified 'proof' videos remain traced to AI generation, a video game, and older unrelated footage. The rated claims stay debunked; this file is kept open while the footage keeps spreading.
The full story
The real disaster, and the claim laid over it
Two things happened in Venezuela in late June 2026, and keeping them apart is the whole job of this file. The first is a genuine catastrophe. Shortly after 6 p.m. local time on June 24, two powerful earthquakes struck northern Venezuela about 39 seconds apart, a magnitude 7.2 and then a magnitude 7.5, in what the U.S. Geological Survey classed as a rare doublet on the Caribbean-South American plate boundary. Buildings came down across several states, and the death toll climbed into the thousands over the following weeks. The victims are real, the grief is real, and nothing here is meant to minimize either.
The second thing is a story that grew on top of the first: that the quakes were not natural at all, but were fired off on purpose by a laser or directed-energy weapon. Some versions blamed a US “geographic weapon,” others the HAARPresearch facility in Alaska. The supposed proof spread within hours: red beams scanning the ground “moments before” the shaking, towers folding into each other, whole buildings dropping in clouds of dust.
This file rates that second story, in two parts. First, that a weapon triggered the earthquakes. Second, that the viral clips are real footage of the event. Both are debunked, and the reasons are independent and solid: the physics of the quakes, and the paper trail behind every headline clip.
Why a weapon story felt believable
It is easy to sneer at the claim, and harder to see why it caught. But the pull is real. A disaster that kills thousands and erases neighborhoods is almost impossible to accept as blind geology. Randomness offers nothing to push against; a deliberate attack offers a culprit, a motive, and the grim comfort that the horror was authored rather than arbitrary. After any great catastrophe, that need for a villain is powerful, and it arrives before the impulse to verify.
The politics gave the villain a face. Real friction between the United States and Venezuela's government made the “we were attacked” framing land with an audience already primed for it, and the trope had a pedigree: back in 2010, figures around Venezuela's then-president publicly accused the US of using a tectonic weaponto cause Haiti's earthquake. HAARP, meanwhile, is the perfect prop, a remote array of antennas in Alaska, humming with power, whose real purpose few people can explain.
The clips did not have to be good. They only had to arrive fast, look dramatic, and confirm a suspicion the disaster had already planted.
And the footage looked real because real destruction was genuinely happening. When a viewer already knows buildings are falling in Venezuela, a clip of a building falling does not feel like a claim that needs checking; it feels like the news catching up. That is the trap. The fake borrows all its credibility from the true event sitting right next to it.
What actually moved the ground
Earthquakes are not fired; they are released. The June 24 events were, per USGS, shallow strike-slip faulting near the boundary where the Caribbean and South American plates grind past each other, exactly the kind of tectonic setting that produces large quakes in this region. The doublet, two near-identical shocks in quick succession, is unusual but a known natural phenomenon, not a signature of engineering.
The energy problem is decisive. Human activity can induce small earthquakes, wastewater injection and reservoir filling are real, studied causes, but the ceiling is low. UCLA engineering professor Jonathan Stewart noted that induced quakes do not exceed roughly the mid-5 magnituderange. Venezuela's were 7.2 and 7.5. Because the magnitude scale is logarithmic, that gap is not modest; each whole step is far more energy, and a 7.5 releases on the order of hundreds of times the energy of a mid-5 event. As Boston University seismologist Rachel Abercrombie put it, nobody has the ability to intentionally create a large earthquake with any degree of certainty.
The specific weapons named cannot do it either. A laser or directed-energy beam delivers nothing remotely close to the energy stored in a locked fault, and it cannot reach one: faults rupture miles underground. HAARP is a high-frequency radio transmitter that studies the ionosphere, the thin ionized layer far overhead; its energy is absorbed high in the atmosphere and never touches the crust where earthquakes begin. Fact-checkers at AAP and Full Fact, quoting the relevant experts, reached the same flat conclusion: it did not, and could not, engineer these quakes. The idea sits in the same family as the site's weather-control claims, and fails for the same reason: a mismatch of scale no secret hardware can close.
The receipts: where the clips really came from
The second claim, that the viral clips are authentic, collapses just as cleanly, because so many independent teams traced the same footage to the same unrelated origins. Start with the star exhibit: the laser beams. AFP and France 24 found the montage was stitched from four clips posted to TikTok between February and April 2026, months before the June 24 quake, by an account that trafficks in UFO content. Analysts flagged AI-generation indicators, and there was a simpler tell still: the earthquakes struck in daylight, so there were no glowing night-time beams to film.
Then the collapses. A widely shared clip of two towers crashing into each other was traced to a Teardownvideo-game simulation uploaded to YouTube in October 2023; an AI detector rated the circulating version about 98.6 percent likely to be synthetic, and the physics give it away, cars and streets that do not react to a collapse beside them. A separate “buildings colliding” video was flagged as AI-generated by Hive Moderation and Deepfake-O-Meter: unnaturally quiet audio, structures falling as rigid blocks with no debris, and an interior that renders empty when a wall drops away.
Finally the recycled real footage, the most insidious kind because it genuinely happened, just not here. A clip of a white apartment tower dropping straight down was a controlled demolition in Kahramanmaras, Turkey, published by Turkish outlets in October 2023. A video of an explosion and panic in the Caracas metro was filmed in Caracas, but during a September 2021 electrical fire at the Los Dos Caminos station, years before the quake.
A UFO account's old beams, a video game, a Turkish demolition, and a 2021 metro fire. None of it was filmed in this earthquake.
Disaster, geopolitics, and a flood of AI
The interesting question is not why a few people believed the weapon story but why it spread so far, so fast. Part of the answer is timeless: catastrophe demands a culprit, and a directed attack is psychologically easier to hold than the thought that the ground can simply do this, to anyone, for no reason. Part is political, a real climate of US-Venezuela tension into which an “attack” narrative fits neatly.
What is new is the supply side. Generative tools can now produce a convincing collapse or a field of scanning beams in minutes, and relabeling an old demolition costs nothing. During this event, feeds filled faster than fact-checkers could clear them, and the same clips resurfaced under fresh captions for weeks. This is the same dynamic the site documents in its file on the faked 2026 Iran war footage: real event, unreal “proof,” and an audience sharing before it checks.
There is a second harm worth naming. Once people know fakes are everywhere, genuine footage of the disaster can be waved away as “probably AI.” Researchers call it the liar's dividend, and it means a flood of fakes damages the record twice: it spreads false pictures and it lets real ones be dismissed. For a country counting its dead, that second cost is not abstract.
No weapon, just a quake
Hold the two layers apart, because collapsing them is the engine of the whole story. The earthquakes were real: natural, tectonic, and devastating, and the people harmed by them deserve to have that treated as the serious event it was. The weapon claim is a separate thing laid on top, and it fails on the physics: USGS ties the quakes to ordinary faulting, no technology can trigger a magnitude-7 event on command, and neither a laser nor HAARP can reach or move a fault.
The clips offered as prooffail on the provenance. Where fact-checkers ran them down, the beams were an old montage from a UFO account, the toppling towers were a video game, the colliding buildings were AI-generated, and the most dramatic “collapse” was a 2023 Turkish demolition or a 2021 Caracas metro fire. On both counts the rating is debunked.
One honest caveat keeps the account from overreaching: humans really can nudge small earthquakes into being, and that is worth understanding. But the distance from a mid-5 induced tremor to a steerable magnitude-7.5 doublet is the distance between a real, bounded capability and a fantasy, and it is the same leap the weapon story always asks you to make. The disaster happened. The weapon did not.
What's still unexplained
- How can you check a clip like this yourself? The reliable methods are unglamorous: reverse image search to surface an older original, geolocation of landmarks and signage, and a simple time-of-day check (the quakes hit in daylight, which alone sinks the 'laser beam' night footage). If only anonymous accounts have a dramatic clip, treat it as unverified until a reputable newsroom carries it.
- Can humans induce earthquakes at all? Yes, but only small ones. Activities like wastewater injection and reservoir filling can trigger seismicity, and scientists study it seriously. The honest boundary is scale: induced quakes have not exceeded roughly the mid-5 magnitude range, orders of magnitude weaker in energy than Venezuela's 7.2 and 7.5, and nothing can aim one on command.
- Why does the HAARP claim keep coming back? The same hoax has followed disasters from Haiti in 2010 onward. Understanding it as a recurring template, a familiar villain reassigned to each new catastrophe, is more useful than debunking each instance from scratch.
- What is the true death toll? It rose steadily as rescue work continued and figures should be attributed to their source and date rather than fixed. Early counts were in the low hundreds; official tallies later reached into the thousands, with people still listed as missing. The uncertainty is about the scale of a real tragedy, not about whether it happened.
Point by point
The claim: A video shows red laser beams scanning the ground in the instant before the quake, proof a directed-energy weapon triggered it.
What the record shows: AFP and France 24 found the clip is a montage stitched from four separate segments originally posted on TikTok between February and April 2026, months before the June 24 earthquakes, by an account that posts UFO content. Digital analysis flagged indicators associated with AI generation. The quakes also struck shortly after 6 p.m. in daylight, when no such beams were visible, and seismologists note no laser or beam could deliver the energy to move a fault this way. The footage was never filmed in Venezuela during the quake.
The claim: Footage of two tower blocks toppling into each other captures the earthquake as it happened.
What the record shows: A reverse search traced the clip to a video uploaded to YouTube on October 2, 2023, titled as an earthquake simulation built in Teardown, a game whose whole premise is demolishing simulated environments. An AI-detection tool rated the circulating version about 98.6 percent likely to be AI-generated or CGI; the giveaways are exaggerated physics, uniform shattering, and cars and streets that do not react to a collapse beside them. One X post of it passed 5.5 million views before it was labeled.
The claim: A clip of two buildings colliding and collapsing was caught on tape during the disaster.
What the record shows: CyberPeace and others ran it through detectors including Hive Moderation and Deepfake-O-Meter, which flagged it as synthetic. The tells are concrete: the audio is unnaturally quiet for the scale of destruction, the buildings fall as single rigid blocks with almost no debris, and when a wall detaches the interior renders as empty space, a classic AI artifact. It is a generated video, not documentation of anything.
The claim: A white apartment tower is filmed collapsing straight down, brought down by the Venezuela earthquake.
What the record shows: A reverse image search placed the footage in Turkey, not Venezuela. Turkish outlets published the same video in October 2023, documenting the controlled demolition of an apartment building damaged in the 2023 earthquakes in the city of Kahramanmaras. It is a planned demolition from another country and another year, recaptioned as live quake damage.
The claim: A video of an explosion and panic inside the Caracas metro shows the earthquake striking the capital.
What the record shows: PolitiFact found the clip was filmed in Caracas but predates the 2026 quakes by years. Reverse searches trace it to September 2021, when an electrical-system failure caused a fire at the Los Dos Caminos metro station. The scene is real, but it is an old, unrelated incident, not footage of the June 24 earthquakes.
The claim: The HAARP facility, or a US 'geographic weapon,' engineered the earthquakes.
What the record shows: USGS attributes the doublet to ordinary shallow strike-slip faulting near the Caribbean-South American plate boundary. Experts told AAP the HAARP claims are baseless: HAARP is a radio transmitter that studies the ionosphere and cannot reach the faults miles underground where quakes originate. Rachel Abercrombie, a seismologist at Boston University, said nobody can intentionally create a large earthquake with any certainty, and UCLA's Jonathan Stewart noted human-induced quakes do not exceed roughly the mid-5 magnitude range, well below Venezuela's 7.2 and 7.5.
Other readings
Angles that don't fit neatly into the claim or its rebuttal, laid out and weighed, not endorsed.
The 'man-made disaster weapon' trope
The Venezuela weapon story is one instance of a much older pattern The Conspiratory covers elsewhere: the belief that governments can summon and aim natural disasters. Our HAARP and weather-manipulation files walk through the same core error in the weather context, that the existence of small, real capabilities (cloud seeding, ionospheric research) gets stretched into an imagined power to manufacture hurricanes or earthquakes. This file is the seismic version of that trope: same reasoning, same ready-made villain in Alaska, and the same collision with physics. It is worth reading alongside those, not as a duplicate but as the earthquake case of a recurring idea.
Timeline
- 2026-06-24Shortly after 6 p.m. local time, two large strike-slip earthquakes strike northern Venezuela seconds apart: USGS lists a magnitude 7.2 followed about 39 seconds later by a magnitude 7.5, with epicenters in Veroes municipality, Yaracuy state, roughly 284–293 km west of Caracas. USGS classes the pairing as a rare 'doublet' on the Caribbean-South American plate boundary. Buildings collapse across several states and the death toll begins to climb.
- 2026-06-25As first casualty counts are released, feeds fill with dramatic 'earthquake' clips. A video of two towers crashing into each other is posted to X and spreads fast; recycled disaster footage and old Venezuelan clips are relabeled as live scenes from the quake.
- 2026-06-26With the official toll rising past 235 dead and thousands injured, the 'not natural' narrative takes hold. Posts blame a US 'geographic weapon' and the HAARP facility in Alaska, and a montage appearing to show red laser beams scanning the ground 'moments before' the quake circulates as proof.
- 2026-06-29Fact-checkers publish detailed debunks. PolitiFact runs down five miscaptioned videos; France 24's Truth or Fake and AFP trace the 'laser beam' montage to clips posted on TikTok months earlier by an account focused on UFOs, note AI-generation indicators, and point out the quake struck in daylight.
- 2026-06-30PolitiFact publishes a Spanish-language version as the same clips spread across Latin American feeds. Fact-checkers document that several 'collapse' videos are AI-generated and others are years-old footage from Turkey and from a 2021 Caracas metro incident.
- 2026-07-01A week on, reporting tallies the human cost: Venezuela's National Assembly president Jorge Rodríguez reports about 2,295 killed and more than 11,200 injured, with numbers still rising and many people missing. Coverage stresses the humanitarian need even as the weapon claims persist.
- 2026-07-02AAP FactCheck and outlets including Forbes address the HAARP claims directly, quoting seismologists that no one can intentionally create a large earthquake and that induced quakes do not exceed roughly the mid-5 magnitude range, far below Venezuela's 7.2 and 7.5.
- 2026-07-10Euronews publishes an explainer on why the HAARP-triggers-earthquakes hoax resurfaces after nearly every major natural disaster, from Haiti in 2010 to Venezuela in 2026. Despite the debunks, the 'laser weapon' clips keep recirculating through the month.
Contradicted. The earthquakes were real and deadly. What this file rates are two separate claims about them, both debunked: that the quakes were artificially caused by a laser or directed-energy weapon (versions blame a US 'geographic weapon' or the HAARP facility in Alaska), and that the viral clips shared as proof are authentic footage of the event. USGS attributes the June 24, 2026 doublet to ordinary shallow strike-slip faulting on the Caribbean-South American plate boundary; seismologists say no one can intentionally trigger a magnitude-7 earthquake, and induced quakes top out around the mid-5 range. Working independently, PolitiFact, Poynter, AFP, France 24, AAP, Full Fact, CyberPeace and others traced the 'proof' to AI-generated video, a 2023 Teardown video-game simulation, a 2023 building demolition in Turkey, a 2021 Caracas metro fire, and a 'laser beam' montage posted online months before the quake. The disaster is genuine and its victims are real; the weapon story and the clips behind it are not.
Reviewed by Colin Peterson · Last reviewed August 15, 2026 · How we rate
Common questions
Is Venezuela quake 'weapon' claim true?
Contradicted. The earthquakes were real and deadly. What this file rates are two separate claims about them, both debunked: that the quakes were artificially caused by a laser or directed-energy weapon (versions blame a US 'geographic weapon' or the HAARP facility in Alaska), and that the viral clips shared as proof are authentic footage of the event. USGS attributes the June 24, 2026 doublet to ordinary shallow strike-slip faulting on the Caribbean-South American plate boundary; seismologists say no one can intentionally trigger a magnitude-7 earthquake, and induced quakes top out around the mid-5 range. Working independently, PolitiFact, Poynter, AFP, France 24, AAP, Full Fact, CyberPeace and others traced the 'proof' to AI-generated video, a 2023 Teardown video-game simulation, a 2023 building demolition in Turkey, a 2021 Caracas metro fire, and a 'laser beam' montage posted online months before the quake. The disaster is genuine and its victims are real; the weapon story and the clips behind it are not.
What is Venezuela quake 'weapon' claim?
On June 24, 2026, two powerful earthquakes struck northern Venezuela within about 39 seconds of each other, killing thousands and flattening buildings across several states. Almost immediately, a second story grew on top of the real one: that the quakes were not natural at all but were fired off deliberately by a laser or directed-energy…
What does the evidence show?
AFP and France 24 found the clip is a montage stitched from four separate segments originally posted on TikTok between February and April 2026, months before the June 24 earthquakes, by an account that posts UFO content. Digital analysis flagged indicators associated with AI generation. The quakes also struck shortly after 6 p.m. in dayl…
Why do people believe it?
A disaster this large is almost unbearable as blind chance. When thousands die and towns are erased, a hidden hand offers what randomness cannot: someone to blame, a reason it happened, and the buried hope that it could have been stopped. Grief looks for an author, and the weapon story supplies one.
What is still unresolved?
How can you check a clip like this yourself? The reliable methods are unglamorous: reverse image search to surface an older original, geolocation of landmarks and signage, and a simple time-of-day check (the quakes hit in daylight, which alone sinks the 'laser beam' night footage). If only anonymous accounts have a dramatic clip, treat i…
Sources
- 1.FACT FOCUS: Conspiracy theories falsely blame Colombia earthquake on Alaska research program, Associated Press (2026)
- 2.Earthquake response strains Colombia's new government and rescuers, NPR (2026)
- 3.Bulos y desinformaciones del terremoto del 10 de agosto de 2026 en Colombia, Maldita.es (2026)
- 4.Rescuers scramble for survivors with 180 dead in Colombia earthquake, BBC News (2026)
- 5.AI is intensifying a 'collapse' of trust online, experts say, NBC News (2026)
- 6.Fact-checking 5 videos that falsely depict scenes from Venezuela's earthquakes, PolitiFact (2026)
- 7.These viral Venezuela earthquake videos aren't all what they seem, Poynter (2026)
- 8.Fact Check: FAKE Video Shows Two Towers Crashing Into Each Other During Venezuela Earthquakes, Lead Stories (via Yahoo News) (2026)
- 9.#FactCheck: AI-Generated Video Falsely Shared as Venezuela Earthquake Footage, CyberPeace Foundation (2026)
- 10.HAARP conspiracies spread after deadly Venezuela quakes, AAP FactCheck (2026)
- 11.Twin Venezuelan earthquakes not caused by HAARP, Full Fact (2026)
- 12.Venezuela earthquakes: Old footage and AI fakes exploit disaster online, France 24 (Truth or Fake) (2026)
- 13.2 major earthquakes strike northern Venezuela near Caracas; death toll rises, NPR (2026)
- 14.Venezuela earthquakes kill at least 188 people, injure 1,520, Al Jazeera (2026)
- 15.How state actors are exploiting climate crises to spread disinformation, France 24 (2026)
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