Storm Area 51: Original Facebook Event

Title: Storm Area 51: Original Facebook Event
Description: Screenshots of the original Facebook event as well as Matty Roberts’ response to Facebook deleting the event. The original Facebook event has since been deleted and is no longer available.
Creator: Matty Roberts
Date Created: 2019-06-27; 2019-08-03
Publisher: Facebook
Rights: All rights belong to the creators.
Source: Storm Area 51: The joke that became a ‘possible humanitarian disaster’; “Storm Area 51” Facebook Event Page Disappears, But It Isn’t Alien Abduction.
Subject: internet-based social phenomenon
Area 51
viral event
internet hoax
alien conspiracy theories
satire
meme culture
collective digital action