AI Can Help Limit the Spread of Misinformation During Natural Disaster, Study Finds

Inside Climate News · By Ryan Krugman · last updated July 9, 2025 – 1:02 AM

Through so-called natural language processing, AI can identify misinformation, track its spread and monitor the digital information landscape in real time. But it has its limits.

By Ryan Krugman

By the third day after the levees broke in August 2005, misinformation in New Orleans about lawlessness and looting was rampant. It became so pervasive that many recovery efforts following Hurricane Katrina’s landfall were halted or delayed.

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