As a string of wildfires hit Los Angeles County, social media users spread claims that authorities purposefully set the blazes to encourage the development of so-called "smart cities." While America's ...

Netizens have now come up with the conspiracy theory that the ongoing brushfires were man-made and deliberately set to rebuild Los Angeles into a “smart” city within the next few years ...

A pair of protests brought thousands to downtown Los Angeles to protest new federal immigration policies, with some ...

Other users conflate smart cities with "15-minute cities ... The SmartLA 2028 plan also only applies to the City of Los Angeles and does not outline a scheme for the rest of the county, which ...

The posts are the latest describing conspiracy theories linking natural disasters to smart city plans that frequently crop up in the United States and Canada. Several wildfires near Los Angeles ...