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YouTube to blame for rise in Flat Earth conspiracy theorists: study
New York Daily NewsThey learned it from watching You..Tube.
Researchers at Texas Tech have pointed at YouTube as the main driver of the recent rise in people subscribing to the flat earth conspiracy, a debunked theory that Earth is a plane, rather than a globe.
Lead researcher Asheley Landrum said her team conducted interviews with 30 attendees at two annual Flat Earther conferences and all but one attendee had become convinced that the Earth was a flat disc hurtling through space because of YouTube videos.
“The only person who didn’t say this was there with his daughter and his son-in-law and they had seen it on YouTube and told him about it,” Landrum told The Guardian.
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Because I watch a lot of political documentaries, they started suggesting crap like a video about how Bill & Hillary have killed thousands on a deserted airstrip in Arkansas.
I literally CALLED their tech support and bitched at them.
