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In Search Of A Flat Earth

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What this video covers

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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HN treats it as the definitive, compassionate documentary on why people fall into conspiracy theories.

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