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In a Tweet, Fox News Seems to Question the Moon Landing

“You be the judge.”
Source: NASA

Fox News anchors sometimes remind viewers that: We report. You decide.

The company took an especially broad outlook on what kind of information merited a decision on Monday, when it appeared to question the reality of the Apollo missions and the moon landing.

“You be the judge: Skeptics. The accompanying story cited an anonymous YouTube conspiracy theorist’s video that claimed to show discrepancies in a photo from the Apollo 17 mission. The story does not have a byline. A spokeswoman for the network did not respond to a request for comment about whether it considers the moon landing up for debate.

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