2 minutes to midnight in 2018: "The world has seen the threat posed by the misuse of information technology and witnessed the vulnerability of democracies to d

2 minutes to midnight in 2018: "The world has seen the threat posed by the misuse of information technology and witnessed the vulnerability of democracies to disinformation." 2 minutes to midnight in 1953: "from Moscow to Chicago, atomic explosions will strike midnight for Western civilization." https://thebulletin.org/timeline https://thebulletin.org/timeline Are they being secretly ironic, giving an example of "fake news"? (To be fair, the longer statement is more detailed than their summary.)