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Who believes the moon landing was faked?
The claim: The Apollo Moon landings were faked. Counts as saying it's true: Says or endorses that some or all of the crewed landings did not happen. Counts as saying it's false: Says humans did land on the Moon.
Says it's true (1)
- Candace Owens: “Now for some light-hearted fun. What’s the one “conspiracy theory” that no matter what anyone says you believe is true. Mine is that the moon landing in 1969 was completely faked. Just nothing about it makes sense. Especially NASA “accidentally erasing” the original footage.” (2022-01-28, source)
Hints it's true (3)
- Joe Rogan: “I'm just saying if they if they were giving people LSD in brothels, I could see them faking the moon landing. 100%.” (2025-09-30, source)
- Alex Jones: “The government lies out of hand. You say, 'well then, why do you believe in the moon landing?' Because I have sources inside NASA—they put on some fake stuff for you—see, there was a lie.” (2014-07-29, source)
- Theo Von: “Yeah, that doesn't That doesn't look like it I don't have confidence in that.” (2026-05-03, source)
Unclear (2)
Hints it's false (13)
- Tucker Carlson: “And if he says he walked on the moon, then I believe him.” (2026-02-03, source)
- Jimmy Dore: “he did exactly what I would do if I went to the goddamn Moon and some punk tells me I didn't go the move hit him in the head” (2023-01-29, source)
- John Oliver: “you're probably familiar with at least some conspiracy theories like the claim that the moon landing was faked or the argument that the earth is flat and that scientists are covering it up” (2020-07-19, source)
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: “For too long, we’ve been told “no” to a substantially better future - that the America that went to the moon, pursued the Great Society & electrified the nation is no longer possible.” (2019-01-24, source)
- Barack Obama: “On Christmas Eve, 1968, the astronauts of Apollo 8 did a live broadcast from lunar orbit. So Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, William Anders -- the first humans to orbit the moon -– described what they saw” (2013-06-25, source)
- Jack Posobiec: “It’s Moon Landing Day!” (2020-07-20, source)
- Mehdi Hasan: “These are not harmless conspiracies a la ‘NASA faked the moon landings’.” (2023-01-17, source)
- Rachel Maddow: “They also shared cool new thoughts on the moon landing. Did we land on the moon? No.” (2021-11-03, source)
- Adam Kinzinger: “I remember being astounded at the evidence that the moon landing was faked — for a whole day,” (2020-08-16, source)
- Donald Trump Jr.: “Apparently the WAPO thinks that landing on the Moon was clearly racist. And to make matters worse we planted the *GASP!* racist American flag on the surface!” (2019-07-16, source)
- Hillary Clinton: “American innovation, like the moon landing 56 years ago today, makes this country great.” (2025-07-21, source)
- Laura Loomer: “This is a significant leap towards putting Americans back on the moon— and staying this time!” (2026-04-01, source)
- Seth Meyers: “It can’t be a coincidence that the two biggest broadcasts of all time were faked by the CIA!” (2024-02-14, source)
Says it's false (12)
- Elon Musk: “It is insane how many people have asked me if the moon landings are fake. The are indeed obviously real. Indeed, just as real as the tragic fact that we haven’t been back there in half a century. We should have built a permanent base on the moon and Mars by now!” (2024-01-30, source)
- Neil deGrasse Tyson: “Have you really thought about what it would take to fake the moon landing?" He said. "Because the rocket did launch, we all saw the rocket launch, okay so there's hardware there, there are office buildings of blueprints for the design of the Saturn 5 rocket, hundreds of engineer…” (2025-09-30, source)
- Bill Nye: “But when it comes to Moon landings, just ask the person how you would generate all that paperwork. “The warehouses full of documentation that NASA created to make landings on the Moon would overwhelm anyone trying to do it on the side.” (2017-07-01, source)
- Brian Cox: “I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again – if you don’t think Apollo 11 landed on Moon you are a colossal nob end & should get a new brain.” (2015-07-21, source)
- Michael Shermer: “Such flummery should not warrant a response, but in a free society, skeptics are the watchdogs against irrationalism — the consumer advocates of ideas.” (undated, source)
- Piers Morgan: “Full disclosure. I don’t believe a word of it.” (undated, source)
- Donald Trump: “Tomorrow is a very big day because tomorrow will represent 50 years from the time we planted a beautiful American flag on the Moon.” (2019-07-19, source)
- Mick West: “I started out with the more ordinary ones, like chemtrails and 9-11 and ‘the moon landing is fake’ and ‘the world is flat’ — you know, investigating and debunking those kinds of things.” (2023-08-11, source)
- Stephen Colbert: “ONE THING I'D LIKE TO SETTLE ONCE AND FOR ALL WAS A RIDICULOUS RUMOR. THE MOON LANDING WAS NOT FAKED, TRUE?” (2016-05-05, source)
- Anderson Cooper: “the people calling BS on Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins, you know, American heroes who were on that mission, not to mention the entire ground crew at NASA” (2025-10-31, source)
- Ben Shapiro: “…unbelievably stupid. And so the idea that you could get thousands of human beings to be complicit in a complex scheme to deceive all of us that we landed on the moon or that the earth is actually flat or that JFK was actually shot by some strange malange of foreign parties.” (2026-06-25, source)
- Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “I knew the astronauts. I knew them as honorable men who I talked to about the incident and that was evidence for me that it happened.” (2023-09-26, source)
No stance found (9)
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