Ian Beacock wrote an article for The New Republic titled Birds Aren’t Real: The Prank That Turned Misinformation on Its Head (28 May 2024). « Calling itself Birds Aren’t Real, this group of primarily Gen Z truthers… explain that the U.S. government secretly ran a “mass bird genocide” starting in the late 1950s, replacing the real avian population with sophisticated surveillance-drone look-alikes. Bird-watching now goes both ways. »
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