For a while online this week, the word was that hacker collective Anonymous may have uncovered an imminent announcement from NASA about the discovery of alien life in the universe. The whole thing was a massive YouTube and tabloid click-bait fail that went so viral it forced NASA's head of science to set the record straight.
"Contrary to some reports, there's no pending announcement from NASA regarding extraterrestrial life," Robert Zurbuchen, NASA associate administrator for science, wrote Monday.
Over the weekend I saw a link to a shoddy video on Anonymous Global's YouTube channel beginning to circulate online. I gave it a watch but didn't give any thought to writing about it because it was a pretty clear play for views, like so many other spammy videos about alien conspiracies and countless fake (or at least poorly researched and reported) news stories we've seen.
Read more here: https://www.cnet.com/news/nasa-anonymous-aliens-video-thomas-zurbuchen/
Those of us in the 'conspiracy theory' circles have only heard this about 57,839,546,945 times. The click-bait, viral schemes catch a whole batch of noobs every time. You can always depend on those noobs, eh? I don't have respect for any group of people who play off that fact.
@steemcleaners
citing source doesnt fall under fair use as majority of content is plagiarized
Interesting post. Been reading a lot about these in recent times.
An alien invasion is a useful propaganda tool to fix the economy according to economy Nobel prize Paul Krugman...
http://business.time.com/2011/08/16/paul-krugman-an-alien-invasion-could-fix-the-economy/
So do not trust them. Use your own eyes. Do you see aliens around?
You should try having a pint in my local pub, its like that bar in the star wars movie