
Episode 32: Submerged
The Charles C. W. Cooke Podcast
The Titanic Rumor Industry on TikTok
The theory that the third class passengers were deliberately kept below decks to prevent them surviving begins in 1912. Thanks to a third class survivor, Kordola Sjorgensen Abelseth who immigrating to America with his sister Karen. There are other conspiracy theories. How soon did they pop up? I was told recently that there's a thriving Titanic rumor industry on TikTok. Now, is that a modern invention or did this rumor mongering and conspiracy theorizing start as soon as the news came in? It depends what you mean by conspiracy theory,. The most enduring theory is not about why it sunk, but about what happened when it was sinking.
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