The combination of wellness, disinformation and conspiracy flourished in the pandemic. But as interest in COVID-19 waned, some influencers are latching onto a new topic
When wildfire ripped through Hawaii s Maui last August, the impact was devastating: a whole town reduced to ashes, more than 100 lives lost. The inferno was described as the "largest natural disaster in state history." But some on Instagram suggested, without evidence, there was something much more nefarious at play.