Government secrecy and mysterious craft in the sky: Lack of details about aerial devices shot down by U.S. prompts rampant speculation on social media.
Nonetheless, it remained the top subject searched on Google on Monday, showing continued public interest in the story.
during Donald Trump’s presidency, an article circulated on far-right sites urging the execution of any Trump administration officials who may have withheld the information.Alongside the political conspiracy theories were suggestions that the aerial objects were extraterrestrial in origin. Photos of alleged UFOs were shared online and web searches for the term “UFO” soared around the world Sunday, according to information from Google Trends.
The federal government must balance the public’s desire to know the details with the need for secrecy regarding national security and defense, Ludes said. That’s not likely to satisfy Biden’s critics, Ludes said, or prevent misleading explanations from going viral. in January. Something similar happened last year when the Nord Stream pipelines in the North Sea were damaged.. The baseless theories were quickly amplified by far-right users in the U.S. It’s not the first time America’s authoritarian adversaries have seized on global events to portray the U.S. as belligerent.
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