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 ¡ª circulating across tech platforms including X, TikTok and Facebook ¡ª 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.