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Influencers face backlash for posting TikTok and Instagram videos while traveling to Jamaica during Category 5 Hurricane Melissa, with critics calling their content insensitive.
"Seeing the videos and the photographs is one thing, but actually being there in person and seeing the damage is quite another," a local senator said. "It's heartbreaking."
The Category 5 storm, which left a trail of destruction across the Caribbean, stunned forecasters and meteorologists, achieving extreme rapid intensification as well as a never-before-recorded wind speed near the ocean surface.
Jamaica’s peak tourism season is one month away, and officials in the hurricane-ravaged nation are rushing to rebuild from the catastrophic Category 5 storm that shredded the island’s western region.
Hurricane Melissa made landfall as a Category 5 storm last week and has left large areas of Jamaica completely devastated. Early assessments show widespread destruction of homes, public infrastructure and agricultural land,
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Experts Alarmed as AI Image of Hurricane Melissa Featuring Birds “Larger Than Football Fields” Goes Viral
One of the most flagrant pieces of disinfo surrounding Hurricane Melissa is an AI generated picture purporting to show the system from miles above the ground. The image shows an absolutely mammoth hurricane eye, punctuated by a flock of birds circling safely above.
A family that was on holiday in Jamaica when Hurricane Melissa struck said people "made new friends" whilst hunkered down in their hotel. Nikki Davies, her husband and daughter, all from Much Wenlock, Shropshire, spent two nights sleeping on the floor of a hotel conference room with other guests, as the hurricane roared overhead.
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