A viral TikTok video promoting a conspiracy about rainbows — yes, rainbows — claims to be voiced by actor Roseanne Barr. But the audio is from an old YouTube video, not Barr, and its colorful conspiracy about tainted rainbows falls flat.
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There is no evidence the speaker in the video is actor Roseanne Barr. The same audio clip was posted in 2008 on YouTube and while the voice sounds similar to Barr’s, there is nothing to signal that it’s her. Rainbows are caused by sunlight refracting and reflecting off water droplets in the air, not chemicals in the water supply., claiming to be voiced by actor Roseanne Barr, describes a conspiracy theory that rainbows, the kind that form in a sprinkler on a sunny day, result from toxins in the air and water supply.
"What the heck is in our water supply? What the heck is in our oxygen supply," says the voice over a clip of a misting fountain with a rainbow."What is oozing out of our ground that allows this type of effect to happen … This cannot be natural." Text on the screen says"Roseanne Barr" and"conservative Republicans have officially lost their fking minds."
But we followed this rainbow to its end and found that it’s not true. The audio is from an old video shared online inFeatured Fact-check
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