US Client Product Security Fee Twitter account confirms birds are actual

The web is chock-full of so many weird conspiracy theories that it is not at all times straightforward to maintain observe, identical to it is not at all times straightforward to separate precise conspiracies from parody ones.

Birds Aren’t Actual, a “motion” that is picked up sufficient steam to immediate a current New York Instances profile piece on founder Peter McIndoe, falls firmly into the latter class.

The parody principle is just about precisely what the identify suggests — that as an alternative of being actual creatures, birds are in truth surveillance drones operated by the U.S. authorities.

In a twist nobody might have anticipated, the federal government itself bought in on the joke.

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Yep, that is the official Twitter account of the U.S. Client Product Security Fee, a authorities company involved with defending the general public from unsafe merchandise.

The tweet acquired 1000’s of retweets, and the USCPSC did not cease there — they used their alternative to meme, and meme onerous.

Properly, you definitely cannot fault their stage of effort.

Will the thread persuade Birds Aren’t Actual diehards? That continues to be unclear. Nevertheless it’s definitely supplied a useful advertising and marketing alternative for the USCPSC’s safer merchandise web site.