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Claim: Astronaut Buzz Aldrin Said The Moon Landing Was Fake (Social Media Users, 2023-10-18)
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Claim: Astronaut Buzz Aldrin Said The Moon Landing Was Fake (Social Media Users, 2023-10-18)
Evidence (2023-09-04): A video of Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin has racked up millions of views after it was shared with a false claim it shows him repeatedly saying the 1969 Moon landing was a hoax. The video comprises three different clips that have been taken out of context. One clip shows Aldrin taking part in a comedy sketch while the other two show him speaking about his legendary achievement. "Buzz Aldrin admits Moon Landing was fake," says the caption of a video posted on a Philippine-based Facebook page on March 16, 2023. [...] In the video, Aldrin playfully defended O’Brien’s error by joking that he was actually the first man to land on the Moon and not Armstrong. He said just before leaving the space flight, he had switched space suits with Armstrong as a prank.
Claim: Astronaut Buzz Aldrin Said The Moon Landing Was Fake (Social Media Users, 2023-10-18)
Evidence (2019-07-18): I’ve met three of the twelve men who walked on the moon. They had one important thing in common when I looked into their eyes: they were all bonkers. Buzz Aldrin, who was the second off the ladder during the first landing on July 20, 1969, almost exactly fifty years ago—he must have stared with envy at Neil Armstrong’s crinkly space-suit ass all the way down—has run hot from the moment he returned to earth. When questioned about the reality of the landing—he was asked to swear to it on a Bible—he slugged the questioner. When I sat down with Edgar Mitchell, who made his landing in the winter of 1971, he had that same look in his eyes. I asked about the space program, but he talked only about UFOs. He said he’d been wrapped in a warm consciousness his entire time in space. Many astronauts came back with a belief in alien life. [...] Kaysing catalogued inconsistencies that "proved" the landing had been faked. There have been hundreds of movies, books, and articles that question the Apollo missions; almost all of them have relied on Kaysing’s "discoveries."
Claim: Astronaut Buzz Aldrin Said The Moon Landing Was Fake (Social Media Users, 2023-10-18)
Evidence (2008-11-20): It's now been nearly four decades since Neil Armstrong took his "giant leap for mankind" if, that is, he ever set foot off this planet. Doubters say the U.S. government, desperate to beat the Russians in the space race, faked the lunar landings, with Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin acting out their mission on a secret film set, located (depending on the theory) either high in the Hollywood Hills or deep within Area 51. With the photos and videos of the Apollo missions only available through NASA, there's no independent verification that the lunar landings were anything but a hoax. The smoking gun? Film of Aldrin planting a waving American flag on the moon, which critics say proves that he was not in space. The flag's movement, they say, clearly shows the presence of wind, which is impossible in a vacuum. NASA says Aldrin was twisting the flagpole to get the moon soil, which caused the flag to move. (And never mind that astronauts have brought back hundreds of independently verified moon rocks.) Theorists have even suggested that filmmaker Stanley Kubrick may have helped NASA fake the first lunar landing, given that his 1968 film 2001: A Space Odessey proves that the technology existed back then to artificially create a spacelike set. And as for Virgil I. Grissom, Edward H. White and Roger B. Chaffee three astronauts who died in a fire while testing equipment for the first moon mission? They were executed by the U.S. government, which feared they were about to disclose the truth.
Claim: Astronaut Buzz Aldrin Said The Moon Landing Was Fake (Social Media Users, 2023-10-18)
Evidence (2019-07-19): Conspiracy theorist punched by Buzz Aldrin still insists moon landing was fake [...] "I get so exasperated when I talk to people who are so convinced that the moon landing was faked," said NASA historian, Bill Barry to FLORIDA TODAY in September of 2018. [...] "I am not the story, the fake moon landings are the story," he said.
Claim: Astronaut Buzz Aldrin Said The Moon Landing Was Fake (Social Media Users, 2023-10-18)
Evidence (2013-08-20): 21 Aug Buzz Aldrin recalls trials, triumphs of moon landing, career as an astronaut [...] In 2002 a conspiracy theorist ambushed Aldrin outside a Beverly Hills hotel and dared him to swear on a Bible that the moon landings were not faked. [...] People who think the moon landing was a hoax puzzle him. A couple of years ago, he said, a lunar orbiter pointed a camera downward and shot clear pictures of the moon landing sites, including his. The photos clearly show footpaths.
Claim: Astronaut Buzz Aldrin Said The Moon Landing Was Fake (Social Media Users, 2023-10-18)
Evidence (2023-07-17): Now consider this: The Soviet Union was the United States’ rival in the Space Race – it wanted to be the first on the Moon. But the Soviet government told its citizens on radio and television and in newspaper articles in July 1969 that U.S. astronauts had landed on the Moon. Soviet President Nikolai Podgorny even sent a telegram to U.S. President Richard Nixon offering his congratulations. [...] But the physical evidence for the Moon landings cannot be faked so easily. First, the Moon rocks brought back by the Apollo astronauts are unlike rocks on Earth. And they are similar to lunar samples returned by Soviet and Chinese spacecraft. Scientists from many countries have examined these rocks and continue to study them today. [...] There’s even more evidence we haven’t mentioned: the dozens of unmanned probes sent to the Moon by both the U.S. and the USSR before Apollo 11, which built up the technology needed for the landings; the large budget devoted to the project – NASA spent about US$49 billion on lunar missions between 1960 and 1973; and the universal agreement by scientific and academic institutions around the world for the past half-century that astronauts really did land on the Moon.
Claim: Astronaut Buzz Aldrin Said The Moon Landing Was Fake (Social Media Users, 2023-10-18)
Evidence (2024-07-20): Everybody loves a good old-fashioned conspiracy theory and the granddaddy of them all is the belief that NASA somehow faked the Apollo 11 moon landing on a secret sound stage and that astronauts never really walked on the lunar surface. [...] Sure, we've heard the head-scratching reasoning for the continued madness: Apollo 11's U.S. flag waves in the wind without the existence of wind on the moon; the absence of stars in any of NASA's moon landing photos; Apollo astronauts couldn’t have survived Earth's dangerous Van Allen radiation belt; and non-parallel shadows in the moon landing images undeniably show they were faked. [...] "Fly Me To The Moon" might draw upon silly conjecture that the moon landings were faked or that a misguided backup plan was discussed behind closed doors, but however far-fetched it seems to disbelievers, NASA did actually place 12 men on the moon from 1969-1972, proving that the weight of truth still reigns supreme.
Claim: Astronaut Buzz Aldrin Said The Moon Landing Was Fake (Social Media Users, 2023-10-18)
Evidence (2022-10-04): Aldrin didn’t say the moon landing was a hoax [...] Buzz Aldrin, who in 1969 joined fellow astronaut Neil Armstrong in landing on the moon, is regularly, and wrongly, accused of saying his historic space flight was a hoax. [...] "Buzz admitting moon landing ‘didn’t happen,’" the Oct. 4 Instagram post says. In a video in the post, a woman in the audience asks Aldrin what the scariest moment of his journey was.
Claim: Astronaut Buzz Aldrin Said The Moon Landing Was Fake (Social Media Users, 2023-10-18)
Evidence (2019-07-12): Despite the extraordinary volume of evidence (including 382kg of moon rock collected across six missions; corroboration from Russia, Japan and China; and images from the Nasa Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter showing the tracks made by the astronauts in the moondust), belief in the moon-hoax conspiracy has blossomed since 1969. Among 9/11 truthers, anti-vaxxers, chemtrailers, flat-Earthers, Holocaust deniers and Sandy Hook conspiracists, the idea that the moon landings were faked isn’t even a source of anger any more – it is just a given fact. The podcast kingpin Joe Rogan is among the doubters. So too is the YouTuber Shane Dawson. A sociology professor in New Jersey was exposed last year for telling his students the landings were fake. While Kaysing relied on photocopied samizdat to alert the world, now conspiracists have the subreddit r/moonhoax to document how Nasa was "so lazy" it used the same moon rover for Apollo 15, 16 and 17; or how "they have been trolling us for years"; or to bring up the fact there is "one thing I can’t get my head around ..."
Claim: Astronaut Buzz Aldrin Said The Moon Landing Was Fake (Social Media Users, 2023-10-18)
Evidence (2022-02-18): Buzz Aldrin correctly noted during a 2000 appearance on "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" that news broadcasts covering the moon landing in 1969 used animated simulations (that were properly labeled as such) to give audiences a visual representation of the moon landing since there are no TV news cameras on the moon. He did not say the moon landing itself was fake. [...] Aldrin never says in this video that the moon landing was fake. The astronaut, who walked on the surface of the moon in July 1969, correctly informed Conan that contemporaneous news broadcasts of the landing used animations to give their audiences a visual representation of the moon landing. This makes sense: CBS News didn't have its own spacecraft to fly to the moon in advance of Apollo 11's flight in order to set up cameras to capture the historic moment. [...] This is hardly the first time that Aldrin's words have been misrepresented in order to claim that the moon landing was fake. In 2018, a video of Aldrin responding to a question from a child about why NASA stopped sending manned missions to the moon was misconstrued as if Aldrin had admitted that the moon landing was fake.
Claim: Astronaut Buzz Aldrin Said The Moon Landing Was Fake (Social Media Users, 2023-10-18)
Evidence (2024-09-01): The Moon landings were faked. Apollo 11 didn't happen. Humans never set foot on the Moon. Heard all this before? [...] This image has been taken as proof by conspiracy theorists that the Moon landings were faked. Surely if the Sun were the only light source, then the shadows should be parallel? Doesn't this prove that the whole scene was mocked up in a studio, with multiple light sources creating different shadow patterns? [...] The Moon landings were not a hoax. Apollo 11 did happen. Humans really did set foot on the Moon.
Claim: Biden going to declare and activate the Selective Service Act and begins drafting 20 years old to war!! (Social Media Users, 2023-10-20)
Evidence (2023-10-20): In conclusion, the claim that President Biden announced plans to activate the Selective Service Act in response to threats from Russia and Iran, with specific reference to the year 2023, is not supported by credible sources, official statements, or legal processes. It is essential to rely on accurate and verified information from reputable sources when assessing the validity of such claims. This claim appears to be a piece of fabricated or AI-generated content without any basis.
Claim: Biden going to declare and activate the Selective Service Act and begins drafting 20 years old to war!! (Social Media Users, 2023-10-20)
Evidence (2022-02-26): The U.S. requires that male citizens and male immigrants between ages 18 and 25 register with the federal Selective Service System, the agency responsible for running a draft. It would require an act of Congress to reinstate a draft in the event of a national emergency, and if that were to happen, the Selective Service System would begin calling registered men for duty. "If Congress were to reinstate the draft, the Selective Service would activate and order all personnel to report for duty to open Area Offices," USA Today reported. "A public, televised and nationally streamed National Draft Lottery to establish the order by year of birth in which registrants receive directives to report for induction would follow."
Claim: Biden going to declare and activate the Selective Service Act and begins drafting 20 years old to war!! (Social Media Users, 2023-10-20)
Evidence (2024-06-17): But in this proposed version of the bill, one particular item stood out to a lot of people online: The bill would automatically register all males between the ages of 18 and 26 in the Selective Service System — or, in more common terms, the draft. [...] Except as otherwise provided in this title, every male citizen of the United States, and every other male person residing in the United States, between the ages of eighteen and twenty-six, shall be automatically registered under this Act by the Director of the Selective Service System.
Claim: Biden going to declare and activate the Selective Service Act and begins drafting 20 years old to war!! (Social Media Users, 2023-10-20)
Evidence (2022-02-24): Draft induction authority expired in 1973. It would take an act of Congress to reinstate the draft. The president would then be authorized to induct civilians through the Selective Service Administration into the armed forces under an amendment to the Military Selective Service Act. [...] If Congress were to reinstate the draft, the Selective Service would activate and order all personnel to report for duty to open Area Offices. A public, televised and nationally streamed National Draft Lottery to establish the order by year of birth in which registrants receive directives to report for induction would follow.
Claim: Biden going to declare and activate the Selective Service Act and begins drafting 20 years old to war!! (Social Media Users, 2023-10-20)
Evidence (2024-02-06): A video of United States President Joe Biden is being shared to claim that he has announced the military draft in order to combat Russia and Iran by invoking the 'Selective Service Act'. What have users said?: People sharing the claim have said, "Amber Alert: To combat Russia and Iran, the recommended way forward will be to invoke the Selective Service Act. "The first to be called will be men and women who's 20th birthday falls during calendar year 2023". Americans are not safe under Joe Biden 187 IQ Tower 22." [...] The post was shared on 27 February 2023 with a caption that said, "AI imagines what would happen if Biden declares and activates the Selective Service Act and begins drafting 20 year olds to war."
Claim: Biden going to declare and activate the Selective Service Act and begins drafting 20 years old to war!! (Social Media Users, 2023-10-20)
Evidence (2022-08-01): The United States has not had a draft since 1973. Congress and the president would have to authorize a draft. In the case of a national emergency, the Selective Service will follow this process to draft eligible young men.
Claim: Biden going to declare and activate the Selective Service Act and begins drafting 20 years old to war!! (Social Media Users, 2023-10-20)
Evidence (2023-03-03): A Twitter video claims to show Biden announcing a national draft. The video opens with President Joe Biden allegedly announcing the activation of the Selective Service Act and then switches to Jack Posobiec, a far-right commentator, commenting on the clip. [...] The video was also posted by The Post Millennial in a tweet. "AI imagines what would happen if Biden declares and activates the Selective Service Act and begins drafting 20 years old to war," its caption reads. AI imagines what would happen if Biden declares and activates the Selective Service Act and begins drafting 20 years old to war pic.twitter.com/896Htrtteu — The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) February 27, 2023
Claim: Biden going to declare and activate the Selective Service Act and begins drafting 20 years old to war!! (Social Media Users, 2023-10-20)
Evidence (2023-10-23): The Facebook video appears to show Biden mid-sentence, saying, "invoke the Selective Service Act, as is my authority as president." He continues, "Remember, you’re not sending your sons and daughters to war. You’re sending them to freedom." Text overlaid on the video reads, "NO WAY The draft." This is not genuine footage of Biden, however. The video was originally posted to X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, by The Post Millennial. Its caption reads, "AI imagines what would happen if Biden declares and activates the Selective Service Act and begins drafting 20 years old to war." AI imagines what would happen if Biden declares and activates the Selective Service Act and begins drafting 20 years old to war pic.twitter.com/896Htrtteu — The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) February 27, 2023
Claim: Biden going to declare and activate the Selective Service Act and begins drafting 20 years old to war!! (Social Media Users, 2023-10-20)
Evidence (2024-06-18): Fact check: Video of Biden calling for a military draft is AI-generated, not real
Claim: Biden going to declare and activate the Selective Service Act and begins drafting 20 years old to war!! (Social Media Users, 2023-10-20)
Evidence (2023-10-23): The original AI video of Biden can be found on X, formerly Twitter. Canadian conservative news outlet The Post Millennial posted the video on February 27, 2023, with the caption, "AI imagines what would happen if Biden declares and activates the Selective Service Act and begins drafting 20 years old to war." The post is below (archived here): In The Post Millennial AI creation, Biden is only on the screen for about a minute. The rest of the X video is conservative pundit Jack Posobiec sharing his thoughts. At the 1:03 mark, he says, "Now that was an AI, I don't want to say recreation, maybe a pre-creation, a pre-creation of President Biden designed and scripted by our producers here for the show of what could happen if President Biden were to declare and activate a selective service act and begin drafting 20-year-olds here in the United States." A Google News search of the phrase, "President Biden reintroducing the draft AND Selective Service Act" did not yield any relevant results (archived here).
Claim: Biden going to declare and activate the Selective Service Act and begins drafting 20 years old to war!! (Social Media Users, 2023-10-20)
Evidence (2021-01-25): Fact Sheet: President Biden Signs Executive Order Enabling All Qualified Americans to Serve Their Country in Uniform President Biden signed today an Executive Order that sets the policy that all Americans who are qualified to serve in the Armed Forces of the United States should be able to serve. The All-Volunteer Force thrives when it is composed of diverse Americans who can meet the rigorous standards for military service, and an inclusive military strengthens our national security.
Claim: Biden going to declare and activate the Selective Service Act and begins drafting 20 years old to war!! (Social Media Users, 2023-10-20)
Evidence (2023-03-03): It further quoted Biden saying, "The recommended way forward will be to invoke the Selective Service Act, as is my authority as president." The post also contained a photo of Biden making an address. [...] But here’s the kicker. Soon after Biden’s speech, a man appears on the screen and clarifies that this was an AI-generated video. He said, "That was an AIâæI don't want to say recreation, but maybe a pre-creation of President Biden, designed and scripted by our producers here for the show of what could happen if President Biden were to declare and activate the Selective Service Act, begin drafting 20-year-olds here in the United States." [...] ThePatriotOasis appeared to have taken the video from The Post Millennial, a far-right Canadian online news magazine. Sharing the same video on February 27, 2023, the official Twitter account of The Post Millennial wrote that it was an AI-generated video. The tweet said, "AI imagines what would happen if Biden declares and activates the Selective Service Act and begins drafting 20 years old to war".
Claim: Biden going to declare and activate the Selective Service Act and begins drafting 20 years old to war!! (Social Media Users, 2023-10-20)
Evidence (2020-01-01): Selective Service activates and orders all personnel to report for duty. Reserve Force Officers, along with selected military retirees, begin to open Area Offices to accept registrant claims. Local, District Appeal, and National Board members are notified to report for refresher training. A publicly attended, nationally televised and live-streamed lottery is conducted. The lottery, a random drawing of birthdays and numbers, establishes the order in which individuals receive orders to report for induction. The first to receive induction orders are those whose 20th birthday falls during the year of the lottery. If required, additional lotteries are conducted for those 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 19, and finally 18.5 years-old. Learn more here.
Claim: Biden going to declare and activate the Selective Service Act and begins drafting 20 years old to war!! (Social Media Users, 2023-10-20)
Evidence (2023-03-02): The video was shared on Twitter by Jack Posobiec, a far-right commentator, and he appeared to quote Biden: ""The recommended way forward will be to invoke the Selective Service Act, as is my authority as president"[...] "The first to be called ... will be men and women whose 20th birthday falls during calendar year 2023" [...] A sneak preview of things to come." [...] Posobiec appeared to have taken the video from @TPostMillenial, which acknowledges, "AI imagines what would happen if Biden declares and activates the Selective Service Act and begins drafting 20 years old to war." Right after the clip of Biden, Posobiec appears in the clip and admits that the video is fabricated. He says, "That was an AI…I don't want to say recreation but maybe a precreation [...] of President Biden, designed and scripted by our producers here for the show of what could happen if [Biden] were to declare and activate the Selective Service Act and begin drafting 20-year-olds here in the United States.
Claim: Biden going to declare and activate the Selective Service Act and begins drafting 20 years old to war!! (Social Media Users, 2023-10-20)
Evidence (2023-10-11): "Biden Set To Bring Back The DRAFT.. For War With Russia Or China," wrote one Facebook user who shared a video that included screenshots of the Parameters essay. [...] He said one of the agency’s top priorities remains ensuring all men ages 18-25 years-old are aware of the federal requirement to register for the Selective Service in the event the president and Congress enact a draft. "We are a readiness organization and continually work with federal and state partners in ‘active stand-by’ status to ensure that the Selective Service System is prepared to mobilize during a national emergency if called on by the President and Congress to do so," Kenny wrote in an email Monday.
Claim: Biden going to declare and activate the Selective Service Act and begins drafting 20 years old to war!! (Social Media Users, 2023-10-20)
Evidence (2023-03-03): In this clip, Biden seemingly announces that he is reinstating the military draft for both men and women in order to help Ukraine's military. [...] "AI imagines what would happen if Biden declares and activates the Selective Service Act and begins drafting 20 years old to war," the caption said. [...] Furthermore, the contents of the speech are both inaccurate and misleading. First, the fake Biden suggests that he can invoke the Selective Service Act under his presidential authority.
Claim: Biden going to declare and activate the Selective Service Act and begins drafting 20 years old to war!! (Social Media Users, 2023-10-20)
Evidence (2021-04-14): President Joe Biden said the war in Afghanistan was never meant to be multi-generational, as he officially announced the drawdown of all 2,500 U.S. troops in that country beginning May 1 and concluding by Sept. 11, the 20th anniversary of the war.