No, Wikileaks didn’t release evidence that the moon landing was faked

A TikTok video shows a series of clips of what looks like footage from space interspersed with scenes from film sets.

"Wikileaks releases moon landing cut scenes filmed in the Nevada desert,"  reads text underneath the video, which was shared in an Oct. 23 Instagram post. 

A narrator refers to the 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing and falsely suggests that it didn’t happen. 

The Instagram post was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram.)

We emailed Wikileaks about the claim and didn’t hear back. But the site, which has published leaked government documents and tens of thousands of emails from the account of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign manager before the 2016 election, doesn’t appear to include the footage in the TikTok video.

We searched the Wikileaks website for results including the words "moon," "landing" and "Nevada" and found zero results. 

USA Today fact-checked a similar post and found the video features behind-the-scenes footage of "Capricorn One," a fictional 1977 movie about faking a mission to Mars after the first manned flight is scrapped. 

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Says NASA spent more than $165 million over 10 years to develop a pen that "writes in zero gravity, upside down" and in extreme temperatures while the "Russians used a pencil instead."

According to IMDb, the Mojave Desert in California, and Yuma, Arizona, were among the filming locations. It didn’t mention Nevada. 

The video in the post also uses authentic clips from the Apollo 11 moonwalk, weaving reality with movie magic in a way that seems intended to mislead viewers into believing that the historic space mission didn’t happen. That’s wrong. 

We rate this post False.