Weather Hoaxer Threatens Facebook After His Page Is Taken Down

A weather enthusiast is threatening to sue Facebook for taking down his weather page. He claims Facebook did so for no reason. However, the not-meteorologist would issue his own “warnings” and “watches” which is punishable by law because he is impersonating a governmental entity.

The following is a snippet taken from a detailed article from The Vane. It relates to our thoughts on the issue quite well:

“Kevin Martin is the anatomical equivalent of the weather community’s stony gallbladder. A thirty-something southern California man armed with little but a collection of fedoras, a first-grade-level understanding of the weather, and a marginal following of internet outcasts, he thrives on creating and spreading false weather information on Facebook for profit.”

“In addition to issuing threats, Martin’s website once featured a fabricated, thoroughly-libelous article accusing Oklahoma City meteorologist Aaron Tuttle of being a child molester after Tuttle took to his own Facebook page to say that The Weather Space was “run by a nut job that is not even a meteorologist, but he likes to pretend to be.”

Martin threatened to write similar libelous posts about the administrators of RationalWiki, whose website hosts a page dedicated to collecting Martin’s finest internet misdeeds.

While the threats have included mentions of violence in the past, it’s Kevin Martin’s litigation that makes him fun to deal with.”

His posts were so outrageous that the National Weather Service issued a statement to all its weather forecasting offices not to make any association to him. You can check out all his “claims” of what Facebook did to him by reading this full length article by The Vane. It is quite the entertaining read.