Meteorologists are getting death threats as they try to combat conspiracy theories being spread during the perilous hurricane season.
Staying awake for days at a time to warn the public about the dangers they might face, weather experts are increasingly facing opposition from online critics with outrageous views.
“Seemingly overnight, ideas that once would have been ridiculed as very fringe, outlandish viewpoints are suddenly becoming mainstream and it’s making my job much more difficult,” meteorologist Matthew Cappucci, from Washington D.C., told Rolling Stone.
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