'Ancient Rome Isn’t Real' — This TikTok Conspiracy Theory Is Infuriating Historians - Daily Dot

Online misinformation is everywhere, but not all of it is part of a grand Russian conspiracy to undermine the west. Sometimes the perpetrators are simply dumber than a bag of hammers. Get ready to facepalm as Gavia Baker-Whitelaw lends oxygen to "internet celebrities" with cringey handles pretending to be authorities when their credentials aren't much stronger than "a heartbeat" and "able to sing Britney Spears' 'Toxic'". Also from the anus of the People's Republic of China, also known as TikTok, Ben Cost beckons you to peek Inside The Weird Parallel Universe Of TikTok 'Timeline Shifters'. In short Tokfluenecers (shudder) play a variant of "How many changes can you spot?" Except in these cases it's supposed to be from flipping between parallel dimensions, rather than careful planning. It's important to share stories like this so our readers are further prepared to detect bullshit, thereby increasing the ratio of signal to noise in our fair fortean field. (CS)

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