The Titanic truthers of TikTok
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The finer details of what happened to the RMS Titanic differ depending on who is telling the story.
The iceberg that collided with the luxury liner was spotted at 11:40 p.m., according to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, or 11:35 p.m., which is what an exhibition about the ship in New York claims. The Royal Museums Greenwich in Britain says the doomed vessel cost 1,503 people their lives, while the Smithsonian in the U.S. notes that 1,522 passengers and crew members died.
Historians have attributed the variance to factors like imperfect ticketing lists and rushed head counts transmitted using weak signals. The broad strokes, however, are not in question. All credible experts agree that on April 15, 1912, less than a week into its maiden voyage, the Titanic ended up at the bottom of the North Atlantic Ocean.
More than a century later, on TikTok, a far different version has been circulating. In a post that garnered more than 11 million views before it was removed this year, one user wrote: “the titanic never sank!!!”
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