The World Health Organization warned that Ebola is spreading rapidly in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and poses a 'very high' risk at the national level, according to the Guardian. Experts say the ever-growing influence of social media and AI means conspiracy theories about Ebola and hantavirus are spreading at faster rates than before, the Guardian reported. These theories include the idea that the outbreaks are planned pandemics designed to upend midterms elections or push new vaccines, as well as claims that Ebola is a bioweapon, a financial plot, or a scheme to extract national resources, all according to the Guardian. Media, pundits, politicians, and scientists have engaged with conspiracy theories for years that the last major pandemic was created and hidden by scientists, according to Bluesky.