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An otherwise good article that however overlooks the possibility (I would dare to say fact) that most flat-Earth videos are nothing more than money making devic
by squarefoot 4y ago
An otherwise good article that however overlooks the possibility (I would dare to say fact) that most flat-Earth videos are nothing more than money making devices aimed at less educated people to cash on YT clicks, ad impressions, communities creation, personal data harvesting, books, conventions, merchandise sales, etc.
Moreover, angry uneducated people can easily be pushed into conforming to this or that political movement and generally becoming easy to manipulate to do something nasty, so yeah, it can be a profitable business on many counts.
To get straight to the point, I think that a lot (most?) of that material is produced by very clever malicious people who are not flat-earthers at all.
- ZeroGravitas 4y agoThis article is very relevant to this: https://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-long-con https://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-long-con It'll seem somewhat dated, as the intro is appalled at how much the Republican presidential nominee tells obvious lies, and we now know Romney was a mere amatuer at that game, but the rest of it goes into great historical detail about how that is not a coincidence.