Birds Aren't Real is a viral conspiracy theory that has captured the minds of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of Americans. Believers insist that the American government systematically replaced the millions of birds in the sky with government surveillance drones to spy on civilians. But are they serious? | VICE

As Birds Aren’t Real caught on, founder Peter McIndoe enlisted a friend to write a backstory about the movement’s core, fake tenet: birds are actually drones spying on you. McIndoe even hired an actor to play a CIA whistleblower. https://cbsn.ws/3Kz4Gat | 60 Minutes