Washington – From false claims that a historic lunar fly-by was staged in a movie studio to unfounded narratives that footage of the crew was AI-generated, the Artemis II mission has been clouded by a blizzard of misinformation.
The falsehoods — circulating across tech platforms including X, TikTok and Facebook — have also added fresh fuel to a long-standing conspiracy theory that NASA’s 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing was faked.
Hashtags such as “fake space” and “fake NASA” have gained traction online since NASA’s lunar fly-by sent astronauts farther from Earth than any human before.
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