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No, the Nepal flash flood was not a hoax
Online posts falsely claim the Nepal flood was a hoax because early reports repeatedly cited the number 33. Read
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Elise joined Full Fact in September 2026. Previously, she co-founded foodfacts.org and served as its Director of Research for two years, overseeing its work fact checking nutrition and health misinformation. Elise has a PhD in Cognitive Linguistics, and is particularly interested in how misinformation and disinformation narratives develop and spread, and in finding ways to improve public debate.
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Online posts falsely claim the Nepal flood was a hoax because early reports repeatedly cited the number 33. Read