For more than a decade, posts on social media have claimed that Australia is a hoax. The posts claim the continent does not actually exist and that Australia was invented to cover up one of the greatest mass murders in history when Britain moved some 162,000 convicts to the southern hemisphere. If you think you've been to Australia, the posts say, you're wrong -- you've probably been to South America where they have cleared space and hired actors to act out as real Australians.
The claim appeared in this Facebook post, published on March 22, 2017. It has been shared more than 23,000 times.
Its lengthy caption begins: "Australia is not real. It's a hoax, made for us to believe that Britain moved over their criminals to someplace."
It also says: “If you think you've ever been to Australia, you're terribly wrong. The plane pilots are all in on this, and have in all actuality only flown you to islands close nearby – or in some cases, parts of South America, where they have cleared space and hired actors to act out as real Australians.”
And lower down the post states: “162,000 people were said to have been transported to this imaginary land during a mere 80 years, and they are all long dead by now. They never reached that promised land.”
Below is a screenshot of the post:
The claim has circulated online for more than one decade, for example, this November 10, 2006, post claiming to tell the truth about Australia’s existence was published on The Flat Earth Society website.
The claim has been repeatedly shared across social media, such as Facebook and on Twitter, and on online forums such as Reddit.
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