A Feb. 21 Facebook post (direct link, archived link) shows a TikTok video containing a compilation of footage of various natural disasters.
“HAARP just been tested on Turkey, Haiti and New Zealand,” reads text included in the video.
The video’s caption claims the High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program, also known as HAARP, is “used to destroy countries.”
The post was shared more than 14,000 times in two weeks.
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Researchers at HAARP say the technology does not have the ability to manipulate the weather or create natural disasters. Furthermore, seismologists and climate experts say humans cannot artificially create earthquakes and large-scale weather events.
More than 41,000 people died after earthquakes struck Turkey and Syria on Feb. 6, USA TODAY reported. Some social media users were quick to connect the disaster to HAARP, echoing a long-running and baseless conspiracy theory about the program.
But seismologists previously told USA TODAY the quake was natural and “not induced” by any kind of human activity.
Furthermore, the research equipment at HAARP “cannot create or amplify natural disasters,” HAARP program manager Jessica Matthews told USA TODAY in an email.
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