"14 U.S. Cities Going Woke as Plans to Ban Meat, Dairy, and Gas Cars by 2030 Spark Outrage," says Fox News contributor Sean Duffy in the caption of an August 24, 2023 Facebook video.
The clip, which garnered more than 170,000 views, shows a Fox Business segment with a map indicating which cities purportedly have a "target" to prohibit such commodities, including Seattle, New Orleans and Washington.
Similar claims spread on Instagram and TikTok, as well as in articles shared online. Some link the supposed plans to the World Economic Forum (WEF), a common target of misinformation.
The posts mention the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group, a global network of nearly 100 mayors and local officials seeking to fight climate change. Although the group has a page on the WEF website (archived here), it is not part of the nongovernmental lobbying organization.
In addition to the C40 members, more than 1,000 cities around the world have pledged to work toward the same goal of reducing emissions (archived here). Posts in English, Finnish and French claim this larger group is also set to impose consumption bans.
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