The media are just not covering the story. The owners of the media corporations determine what is broadcast, and they're not sending their reporters into the field in Maui to interview the bereft people. The social media corporations simply ban or throttle posts from people, and only those with Starlink have been able to even post according to claims by one of the more prolific civilian reporters.

The independent, alternative media, including Hive posts, are wholly permissioned by ISPs that own the physical network they depend on to transmit their comment. Consider how increasingly coordination across industries from banking to social media is used to censor alternative narratives. How can Assange report war crimes from Belmarsh prison? How can Corbyn continue to participate in UK government without a bank account? Cloudflare can just eliminate websites. In addition to such overt mechanisms, covert mechanisms further extend censorship. Myriad 'suicides' by double tapping to the back of the head have silenced voices. Censorship is relatively facile today.