Startup Molekule Is Using the California Wildfires to Sell Its Crummy Air Purifier

Wirecutter called Molekule ‘the worst air purifier we’ve ever tested’

Sarah Emerson
OneZero
Published in
5 min readOct 29, 2019

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Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty

InIn November 2018, the Camp Fire blaze leveled the idyllic rural town of Paradise — tragically killing 85 people and burning 153,000 acres — and sent a cloud of noxious smoke into the Bay Area. For weeks, the…

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Sarah Emerson
OneZero

Staff writer at OneZero covering social platforms, internet communities, and the spread of misinformation online. Previously: VICE