Claim(permalink)
Officials say the October 2017 California wildfires were started by Mexican drug cartels in order to gain a strategic advantage over the legal marijuana industry.
✓snopescom rating: not verifiable; published on 2017-10-17
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left political leaning
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neutral sentiment
Date published
2017-10-17
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