Willy Stoewer; Bettmann/Getty Images; Alyssa Powell/InsiderShe deleted it, but the clip continued to spread, showing how misinformation circulates on the app.For more stories,When 18-year-old TikTok creator @mia_w22 filmed herself discussing a conspiracy theory that the Titanic never sank, she didn't expect the reaction she received.began in her original video, speaking fast and looking directly into her phone's camera.
Before she ultimately decided to delete it, Mia garnered over 11 million views on her three-minute video hypothesizing that the historic ship's sinking was actually a planned insurance fraud scheme using a decoy ship called the Olympic — which she correctly identified as being built in 1912 by the British shipping company White Star Line.
"I made the theory video and posted it thinking all was well and that I was just sharing a fun theory," Mia wrote in a statement to Insider."Then my boyfriend told me that I was getting hate on Reddit because someone posted my video to the. This is the first instance of me being alerted to my facts in the video being incorrect."
Slowly, the audience engagement on Mia's video turned from curiosity to vitriol. Though she wasn't the first to spread the debunked theory, viewers who came across her video reacted strongly to incorrect details, such as the idea that elites including banker JP Morgan and chocolatier Milton Hershey refused to board the ship because they knew it would go down.
That vitriol spurred even more engagement and, by the time Mia decided to take down the video — because, she told Insider, that was"what feels right on my conscience" – the clip had taken on a life of its own. Soon, people were taking her clip and
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