(CNN) For years, Anderson Cooper has been the victim of conspiracy theories.

There's the man who claimed Cooper didn't go to Sandy Hook after the shootings in 2012, and that he interviewed a grieving mother on a green screen.

Then there's the claim that Cooper used a boy in Haiti as a human shield to protect himself, when he was actually helping the child, who had been struck in the head with a piece of concrete in a mob.

The latest conspiracy, though, must have hit a nerve. Photos of Cooper reporting in waist-deep water have circulated on social media recently, as Hurricane Florence lashed the Carolinas and Virginia.

In one of the photos, Cooper's lower half is submerged, but the water just barely approaches the knee of a member of his crew who is standing nearby.

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