How could hurricane misinformation affect the US election?

Amid two hurricanes - one of which hit two swing states - conspiracy theories swirled, such as the weather being controlled to prevent Republicans from voting

Alex Jones, the longtime conspiracy theorist liable for millions for defaming school shooting victims, started a broadcast this week with one of his favorite topics: weather manipulation.

All right, I did a lot of research and a lot of preparation the last 30 years for what I'm going to be covering today," he said. Coming up, I'm going to do a big presentation for everybody on what's really going on with weather weapons."