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The green-screen astronaut — a hoax made by a flat-earther

The claim

“Astronaut Karen Nyberg was filmed faking weightlessness in front of a green screen.”

What is measured

The most widely shared piece of evidence for a faked spaceflight was made by a flat-earther, features a flat-earther, and was publicly disowned by the flat-earther who filmed it. It is still circulating. That is not a story about NASA. It is a story about what happens when a claim is never checked.

What would show this is wrong

the original upload showing anyone other than Paige Windle and David Weiss, or an audio analysis matching the voice to Karen Nyberg, or a source for the clip that predates Weiss’s own channel. Fact-checkers, the podcaster who filmed it, and Nyberg’s own representative all say the same thing.

Sources

  1. The “Karen Nyberg green screen” video: origin and correction. The clip was filmed by flat-Earth podcaster David Weiss and shows his partner Paige Windle; Weiss described it as a demonstratio link
  2. Fact-check: the video does not show Karen Nyberg. A voice off camera calls the woman Paige; her voice does not match the astronaut’s; Nyberg’s representative confirmed it is not her. Nyberg link
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