The United States Strategic Command controls the nation’s nuclear weapons. Many people were confused by an unusual message posted on its Twitter page on March 28th. The only thing written was “; l ;; gmlxzssaw”. This inspired conspiracy theories, and many Internet users tried to discover the organization’s supposed secret message. Some even thought it was a code to launch nuclear weapons.

The explanation, however, was a lot simpler and less worrisome than people imagined. The person who posted was the son of one of the people in charge of the organization’s social network account. He took advantage of his father’s absence from the room to play with the keyboard and ended up posting random letters.

Questions
1) According to the text, how did the post happen?
a) The child played with his father’s computer and ended up posting a string of letters.
b) A cat sat on the computer keyboard.
c) The son of an employee wrote the post thinking he was using another account.
d) The message was a secret code that was posted accidentally.

2) If you saw the post before you knew about the story, what would you think was going on?

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