TOBY SHAPSHAK: The Titanic never sank on TikTok

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TOBY SHAPSHAK: The Titanic never sank on TikTok
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Misinformation’s newest frontier is the short-form video app, where conspiracy theories run rampant, writes shapshak.

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...A subscription helps you enjoy the best of our business content every day along with benefits such as articles from our international business news partners; ProfileData financial data; and digital access to the Sunday Times and TimesLive Premium.

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