The dark side of online space disinformation -
, but it’s not. It’s from a simulation. There are images of really improbable skylines, like a sunset with a full Moon next to it. Which is just not possible. There are a lot of images that get cycled around, and there areQ: What’s the weirdest claim you’ve seen?All of them are so weird. There have been a couple of claims going around about the idea that on a certain date, Mars is going to appear as big as the Moon in the sky.
Q: On the face of it, this seems frustrating, but not necessarily as troubling as health misinformation.The way it goes is that you see something that’s false and you believe it. Right? Some physics or astronomy thing that is false, but for whatever reason you think it’s true. And then you discover that it’s not an accepted idea. All the experts say it’s wrong. And then at that point, either you accept what the experts say, or—if you still think that thing is true—then the experts are lying.
When people get more invested, it happens the way that all conspiracy theories happen, which is that people get into the idea of secret information. The appeal of conspiracy theories is that there’s some secret explanation that you can have access to that most people don’t have access to. That’s a big part of the flat Earth stuff, and the Moon [landing] hoax. All of those kinds of ideas come down to the same appeal that conspiracy theories have.
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