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Origin In February 2021, as Texas began to recover from a devastating winter storm that brought record-low temperatures, killed dozens of people, and cut the power to millions of homes, a report emerged online that blamed the administration of U.S. President Joe Biden for supposedly denying requests to increase the electricity supply within the state. On Feb. 20, the website Infowars, a notorious producer of conspiracy theories and inflammatory disinformation, published an article with the head...

Fact-checking Infowars claim that Biden blocked Texas from increasing power before deadly storm Daniel Funke, PolitiFact Texas FacebookTwitterEmail SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images As millions of Texans regained power after a severe winter storm brought snow, ice and freezing temperatures, some conspiracy theorists tried to pin the widespread outage on the Biden administration. On Feb. 20, InfoWars, a conspiracy website run by Alex Jones, published an article with the headline: "Joe Biden’...

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Some claims online accuse the US Energy Department of denying Texas requests to operate at maximum levels during a power crisis. The claims are not true.