Burning Man Festival has been hit with false claims of an “Ebola outbreak”.
Fake posts on social media began to circulate after news that over 70,000 festival-goers were left stranded in the Nevada desert following flooding after heavy rain.
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Authorities are investigating a death at the festival site, with the Pershing County Sheriff’s Office revealing the death happened during the event but have not offered any further details, including the identity of the deceased person nor the suspected cause of death.
Festival organisers closed vehicle access on Saturday (2 September) and urged festival-goers to shelter in place and conserve food, water and other supplies.
False news that an outbreak of Ebola had occurred at the festival started to circulate on Saturday evening. Here’s everything you need to know about what’s happening at Burning Man.
No, there is not an Ebola outbreak at Burning Man festival. As if things couldn’t get any worse for festival-goers, a viral post was shared on Saturday which claimed cases of the infectious disease had been detected. This led to widespread rumours that an outbreak of Ebola had happened at the Nevada music festival.
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Fake posts started to pop up on X, formerly known as Twitter, where they appeared to show posts shared by the CDC which discussed an Ebola outbreak at Burning Man. The false information was widely shared on social media, and also included claims that a...
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