Just watched a documentary on flat-earthers ("Behind the Curve"). It's interesting. Flat earth seems like a microcosm of what's wrong with how information travels on the internet:
- skepticism towards experts
- conspiratorial thinking
- confirmation bias
- charismatic leaders propelled by YouTube
- a sense of community lacking outside the internet
- a tiny fraction of eccentrics being given oxygen and signal-boosted by a curious media (even this toot is part of the problem)