#alternative3 — Public Fediverse posts

Wow, it really worked!
The 70s TV show that’s causing worldwide panic – 50 years later

When #UK #mockumentary #Alternative3 tried to spook viewers that #scientists were vanishing as part of a #sinister space plot it succeeded.

Today, the resulting #conspiracy #theory has even seen #Trump’s government launch an investigation

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/jun/16/alternative-3-mockumentary-missing-scientists-conspiracy-50-years-later

#disinformation #DementiaDon #DictatorTrump #propaganda #AprilFools #dystopian #authoritarian #misinformation

Who remembers Alternative 3? I'd read the book but missed the TV mockumentary at the time. It almost had me converted, but I knew that some of the astronaut names mentioned were made up.

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/jun/16/alternative-3-mockumentary-missing-scientists-conspiracy-50-years-later

#Alternative3 #ConspiracyTheory

When you realise your "They're going into Space to abandon the rest of us and live on Mars" theory is nothing more than a reheated 70s hoax from Anglia Television.
Naturally the Trump regime thinks there's something to it, or rather this is some shit to flood the zone with.

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/jun/16/alternative-3-mockumentary-missing-scientists-conspiracy-50-years-later

#ConspiracyTheories #Alternative3

"Alternative 3 shows just how much impact a well-constructed spoof can have, even when its creators protest that it’s not real."

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/jun/16/alternative-3-mockumentary-missing-scientists-conspiracy-50-years-later

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_3

#essay #mockumentary #conspiracies #Alternative3