Conspiracy Theories on the Internet

A conspiracy theory is a theory that explains an event that claims to be a plot, which is covered by a group or an organization, and been hidden from a big part of the population. A lot of people like to read about conspiracy theories and wonder if they are true or not, that is a big part of why they are so known around the world. People like to share things they read about on the internet with their friends, who might also share them and so on, this way the theories get known worldwide.
Here are 3 examples of known conspiracy theories, where people using the internet and social media to convince others that the happenings in the past might not be true, or they might have a different truth:

•  The Apollo Moon Landing Scam:

There are accusations about the Apollo moon landing being a scam. The conspiracy theory claims that NASA and other organizations have misled the public into believing that the moon landing happened, but in the reality the astronauts did not walk on the moon and that NASA created and are maintaining the scam.People have tried to analyze the pictures from the moon landing and they made some curious discovers, for example there were no stars, the background is identical in all the pictures and the angle and colors of the shadows are inconsistent, which all suggest a painted background and that there was used artificial light.

•  Princess Diana was murdered by the Royal Family:

In 1997 princess Diana of Whales and her boyfriend Dodi Fayed were killed in a car accident while they were trying to get away from press photographers in Paris. According to the conspiracy theory the accident was planned because there were some speculations about their relationship (Dodi Fayed was a Muslim and Diana was the mother of the future head of the Church of England), so the royal family were supposed to have them killed in order to prevent a further scandal to the English throne.

•  Holocaust never happened:

Some people deny holocaust, the persecution of Jews in the 1930’s and 1940’s by the Nazis. The denial already started during the World War ll when the Nazis tried to keep the mass murder of Jews in secret. According to the conspiracy theory it just did not happen, they refuse to look at all the evidence and they say that the killing was not ordered by Hitler, so it was not an official politic and the Jews was just deported “east on”.