EPA has not approved the release of genetically modified mosquitoes — at least not during the second Trump administration.
EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin was quick to repudiate a video circulating online that claims the agency “just authorized the release of 2 billion genetically modified mosquitoes into Florida.”
“ENTIRELY fake news!” Zeldin wrote in a post on the social media site X over the weekend, followed more broadly by a press release Wednesday. “At no point since President Trump was sworn back into office has the Trump EPA authorized the release of ANY genetically modified mosquitoes into Florida or anywhere else for that matter. So much fake news BS being peddled on social media for RTs, Likes, and engagement.”
Zeldin was responding to a video reposted by the user @BGatesIsaPsycho, a self-proclaimed “Conspiracy Realist/Coincidence Analyser” with more than 1 million followers — one of them being Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
