Birds Aren’t Real? How a Conspiracy Takes Flight | Peter McIndoe | TED
Why the open web links it
Explores how conspiracy theories like 'Birds Aren’t Real' spread and reflect societal divisions and the search for belonging.
Linked by 19 independent sites, 3 of them widely read in the 2026-10 crawl of the open web, including ted.com, cfo.com, detector.media, thedesk.net, chr.bg.
Cited in 1 Wikipedia article, including Birds Aren't Real.