Kuala Lampur, April 10 -- From false claims that a historic lunar fly-by was staged in a movie studio to unfounded narratives that footage of the crew was AI-generated, the Artemis II mission has been clouded by a blizzard of misinformation.

The falsehoods - circulating across tech platforms including X, TikTok and Facebook - have also added fresh fuel to a longstanding conspiracy theory that Nasa's 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing was faked.

Hashtags such as "fake space" and "fake Nasa" have gained traction online since Nasa's lunar fly-by sent astronauts farther from Earth than any human before.

Among the falsehoods was an image, viewed over a million times on X, purporting to show the Artemis II crew floating before a green screen and fa...