TOBY SHAPSHAK: The Titanic never sank on TikTok
Misinformation’s newest frontier is the short-form video app, where conspiracy theories run rampant
22 June 2023 - 05:00
On TikTok, the world’s most famous shipping tragedy never happened. Or, in the words of one conspiracy theorist: “The Titanic never actually sank.”
During this half-minute video a man, wearing a hoodie and his baseball cap backwards, peddles a favourite theory: that the Titanic was actually replaced with its sister ship, the Olympic, as part of an elaborate insurance scam...
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