'It becomes kind of deflating to see a lot of this junk coming out.'
on the social media platform claims that the discovered boat wreckage is not the Titanic at all. The bizarre theory suggests the owners of the luxury liner swapped it with an older boat, the Olympic, which was damaged in past voyages. The video clearly hit a nerve and has garnered 92,000 likes.NYTUnsurprisingly, these kinds of unhinged and exhaustively disproven theories have turned into a major headache for those who have studied the sunken passenger ship for decades.
"It becomes kind of deflating to see a lot of this junk coming out," Charles Haas, author and cofounder of the Titanic International Society, told theDebunking Lies The conspiracy theories about the Titanic vary in detail. Many of them claim that it was swapped with its sister ship called the Olympic in an apparent attempt at insurance fraud. Their alleged smoking gun: right before the Titanic's fateful voyage in 1912, some of the most prominent members of upper-class society, such as banker JP Morgan, backed out of setting sail on the doomed vessel at the last minute.
Haas, who has written books on the Titanic and has visited the wreckage site himself, is painfully familiar with conspiracy theories about JP Morgan and the Olympic. "The sad part is that many of the people following this sort of thing are teenagers, and they are woefully unwilling to do digging," he told theSome amateur Titanic experts have taken to not just educating TikTok denizens on the facts, but are also busy debunking conspiracy theories like a game of wack-a-mole, according to the report.on its voyage to see the Titanic wreckage, conspiracy theories could well go into overdrive on TikTok.
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