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Flooding that left attendees of the Burning Man festival stranded in the Nevada desert over the weekend resulted in numerous rumors circulating online.The Burning Man festival is an annual event held on a campsite located on the Black Rock Desert playa, an evaporated lake bed, around 150 miles north of Reno. Storms and flooding in the area caused road conditions to deteriorate on account of mud, leading officials to urge festival attendees to “shelter in place.
A doctored image of a supposed social media post from the CDC echoed this. Claims also circulated that the Federal Emergency Management Agency was at Burning Man in response to the supposed virus outbreak. The festival organizers stated Sunday, “The online rumors of transmissible illnesses in Black Rock City [the Burning Man festival site] are unfounded and untrue.
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