Watch out for these images fuelling a conspiracy theory about the Hawaii wildfires

On Facebook and Twitter, several images are being used to claim that the fires on the Hawaiian island of Maui were started by high-tech weapons. But these are images taken out of context, with no connection to these events. © Observers

In the wake of the fires that tore across the Hawaiian island of Maui on August 8, a number of images have been circulating on social media. The unrelated videos have been fuelling a conspiracy theory, born in the 2000s, that says wildfires are caused by laser weapons known as "directed energy weapons".

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