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In Search Of A Flat Earth

Dan Olson's 76-minute essay on flat earth belief, built around a hike to a lake to test earth's curvature. It examines the community, how YouTube promoted it, and how it connects to wider conspiracy thinking and QAnon.

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  1. 1flat earth
  2. 2folding ideas
  3. 3qanon

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Explains how flat earth anti-intellectualism led to QAnon

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