A secret is lurking on the surface of Antarctica, and the only way to uncover it is by accessing Google's Street View feature, according to a recent Facebook video.
The video originally came from TikTok and features a user reacting to another video of a woman looking at a map of Antarctica on Google.
"So for Antarctica to be completely covered in ice, that’s what we’ve been taught all my life, why, when you go on Google Maps, does it show this," the woman says as the video switches from a map view of the icy continent to a street view showing a green, tree-lined landscape with buildings.
"Now, I know I smoke a lot of weed, but this s--- ain’t adding up," the woman says. "I mean, where’s the snow?"
The woman urges viewers to go on Google and check out the street view for themselves. But the terrain featured in the video isn’t actually in Antarctica.
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Conspiracy theories related to the continent are not new. PolitiFact has checked false claims that Antarctica contained a secret entrance to a hidden world under the Earth, that it had ancient pyramids and that it’s not a real continent.
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