What Happens When Jeff DeWit Does Too Much Photobombing
This space news website is certainly not ready for prime time – this picture of @NASA Administrator "Jeff" Bridenstine is actually NASA CFO Jeff DeWit.
This is what happens with @JeffDeWitAZ gets into too many pictures with @JimBridenstine. Just sayin' https://t.co/aInp6nZplK
— NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) June 8, 2018
ISS’s privatization – https://t.co/uB6sbeIFiy After the hint given by Jeff Bridenstine, that the White House is not in favor of funding specific projects run by NASA, and that for monetary aid to be taken, the first step would be handing over the International Space Station t… pic.twitter.com/aPS1ZAlz1D
— SpaceFlight News (@thespaceflight) June 8, 2018
Keith’s note: It has gotten to the point that nearly every picture of NASA Administrator Bridenstine has NASA CFO Jeff DeWit sitting next to him. This photobombing will – and now has – led to confusion as to who is actually running NASA. In 22 years of watching NASA I have never seen such a camera-seeking NASA CFO. People are just getting to know what Jim Bridenstine looks like and Jeff DeWit is just making that harder for NASA to do. “Jim” and “Jeff” are often in the same picture. Its understandable that some people would be easily confused. Just sayin’.
Just in case the original tweet gets deleted, this is what the story looked like. And this is what the tweet looked like.
Is that site possibly written by a bot scraping other articles for promotional purposes? Looking at some of the other recent Tweets:
The amazing Space run – newsspaceflight.com/the-ama… Space is a mystery unforeseen, an event that takes place there may trigger a chain of events that may leave an impact you can’t imagine. For more than a century, organisations are developing something related to space, be it in a…
Or:
NASA plans to take humans above the clouds on Venus – newsspaceflight.com/nasa-pl… It has been more than half a century when human space program pertaining to the US nation has gone through various turmoil in respect of two long-range goals namely establ…
Those don’t strike me as poor grasp of the language but reminiscient of self-promoting Twitter bots. Those posts make no sense.
Its even worse if a Bot is doing this since that means some sort of automated machine learning thing has scraped data and thinks that DeWit is NASA Administrator. These bots find these things all over the place and usually run with the consensus of the things that they scrape. In other words – some people think that “Jeff” Bridenstine is NASA administrator and that he is 6′ 5″.