Pete Buttigieg called out the prolific spread of “bad information or false information” in the wake of Hurricane Helene and Hurricane Milton while speaking on MSNBC Thursday. “This is a life and death response operation. And when people get bad information or false information, that has real world consequences,” he said.
Buttigieg had praise for FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell, who he said is “leading extraordinary work.”
“She’s on the ground right now, and she talked about how the misinformation going around right now is just a multiple hire of anything that we’ve really seen before, and again, that has very real consequences if it can actively interfere with the ability of responders to serve people and the ability of people to get good and accurate information,” Buttigieg said.