The Endless Horror of Tiktok's Historical Misinformation

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The internet has made it easier than ever to access information, but it's also just as easy to read and spread lies about history. Tiktok fosters this especially well. Come learn with me about some of History Tiktok's most violent offenders.

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Sources

From Dark to Light: The Many Shades of Sharing Misinformation Online by Miriam J. Metzger, Andrew J. Flanagin, Paul Mena, Shan Jiang and Christo Wilson

Understanding Online Falsehood From the Perspective of Social Problem by Anjan Pal and Snehasish Banerjee

Navigating Fake News, Alternative Facts, and Misinformation in a Post-Truth World by Kimiz Dalkir and Rebecca Katz

Not Your Grandpa’s Hoax: A Comparative History of Fake News By Julien Gorbach

Emil and Xaver; or, LGBTQ history as fiction by Jonah Comen for Medium   / emil-and-xaver-or-lgbtq-history-as-fiction  

A history TikToker's viral claim that Ancient Rome 'didn't exist' is getting backlash from academics by Kieran Press-Reynolds https://www.insider.com/history-anthr...

Getting Your Period in the Middle Ages by Larisa Grollemond for Getty https://www.getty.edu/news/education-...

Versailles: A Biography of a Palace by Anthony Spawforth

The Foul and the Fragrant: Odor and the French Social Imagination by Alain Corbin

The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters by Rose George

The Age of Comfort: When Paris Discovered Casual--and the Modern Home Began
By Joan DeJean

Clean and Decent: The Fascinating History of the Bathroom and WC by Lawrence Wright

What was a Bourdaloue? By Sarah Murden for GeorgianEra https://georgianera.wordpress.com/201...

Cr*p at Versailles. Like, literally. By Kendra Van Cleave for FrockFlicks https://www.frockflicks.com/crap-at-v...

Did Helen Keller Really “Do All That”? By Rebecca Onion for Slate https://slate.com/human-interest/2021...

Debunking the Helen Keller Denial Meme by Jillian Mock for WebMD https://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/n...

On TikTok, an Album Containing Old Wartime Photos Causes Havoc by Simon Parkin for The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/culture/rab...

Washington Irving’s Columbus and the Flat Earth by Darin Hayton https://dhayton.haverford.edu/blog/20...

Bound for Canaan: The Underground Railroad and the War for the Soul ofAmerica by Fergus Bordewich

New Perspectives on Tubman by Dann Broyld for the NPS https://www.nps.gov/hatu/learn/histor...