… were such a story ever publicly _proven_ to be true. The bar for that is much higher than for the question whether or not it _is_ true. Now just to prevent an

… were such a story ever publicly _proven_ to be true. The bar for that is much higher than for the question whether or not it _is_ true. Now just to prevent any misunderstanding: I'm not saying it _is_ actually true. It was just a humorous exercise in conspiration theory building. But technically, we don't know it isn't true. And as long as we don't, there are no consequences for them… even if it happens to be true.