Despite being declared false, UFO sightings images have been spread all over the world, in many countries that are geographically and culturally distant from each other. The map focuses especially on the actual distance that occur from the place of the sightings to the sharing country. In addition to the spreadability of the images, this last aspect defines the impact that images can have on the misinformation problem, which is not just national, but global.
Main Findings
In general, although the event takes place in a specific state, the countries that most share the image are not the adjacent ones, but the geographically opposite ones.
The image of Roswell is the one with more sharing feedback on the web. In fact, it is the image that touches all continents at least once. To be precise, it has been shared in 22 countries.
United States of America is the country with the highest rate of UFO sightings and at the same time the country with the highest number of sites talking about aliens.
Even though none of the sightings considered took place in Russia, it is the country in second place in terms of the number of sites that share and use debunked images.
In the African continent, compared to other countries, only Egypt is among the countries with the highest rate of sharing of fake images regarding sightings.
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