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In Search Of A Flat Earth
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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.
HN treats it as the definitive, compassionate documentary on why people fall into conspiracy theories.
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