The Right-Wing Internet Is Full Of Wild Theories About A Text Message From FEMA
If you really would rather not get a text message from FEMA on Wednesday as part of the national Wireless Emergency Alerts system test, there’s an easy way out ― just turn off your phone around 2:20 p. m. ET.
Or you could wrap the phone in literal tinfoil. An instructional video with that advice has been reposted nearly 1,000 times on X, formerly known as Twitter. And that’s hardly the only one ― around the web, scores of posts are hyping up the test as a significant risk, even though it’s harmless, routine, and has gone on for years.
Why fear an automated text message? The reasons are mind-bendingly ludicrous, but surf long-running waves of disinformation around 5G networks, the COVID vaccines, and a nefarious federal government intent on harming its citizens.
“These tests and exercises or drills, if you prefer, are always preceding of, or simultaneous with, an actual created crisis,” the Hawaii-based pastor J. D. Farag said in a recent sermon, clips of which spread on X and TikTok.
“The crisis is first simulated and then created,” said Farag, who has nearly 300,000 subscribers on his “End Times news and global events” YouTube page, before comparing the impending event to the Sept. 11 attacks and COVID-19
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