Wildfires Keep Getting Worse. So Do the Conspiracy Theories.

In the United States, it was the dastardly “antifa.” In Australia, it was the Green Party. In Brazil, it was environmentalists. As the world battles wildfires, conspiracy theories wrongly but consistently blame the left for starting the blazes.In the space of a year, Brazil, Australia, and now the U.S. have witnessed catastrophic wildfires. Ruinous burn seasons are poised to get even worse if climate change continues unchecked. Meanwhile, a crisis of truthfulness—which the