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But over the past five years or so, I feel like there’s been a lot more bleedover between conspiracy realms. The four-panel image has been used widely to mock the flat Earth theory, suggesting that if the Earth were flat, the hypothesized meteor that caused dinosaur extinction would have violently rotated the flat Earth, hurling the dinosaurs into outer space.
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Looking at climate change denialism, that comes from just doubting the idea of expertise as a whole. To believe in a theory like this one, you have to go way, way past the normal threshold for questioning expertise and “hierarchies of intellectual knowledge. Even the most hardline flat earthers, the ones who seriously wonder if you could sail a boat to the “bottom side” of the earth like in Pirates of the Caribbean, apparently do not believe the dinosaurs were catapulted into space.
YouTube finally got wise to this problem after tons of criticism in 2019, so five years after Flat Earth video started skyrocketing, they changed their algorithm to stop promoting Flat Earth videos that much. And then I dug in and I found out that they were extremely serious, and there was this whole burgeoning community that thought Earth was absolutely flat. It disappeared behind the horizon while the helicopter was still a considerable distance from the ground. Over the past few years, particularly with the Trump administration and the pandemic, conspiracy theories in general have gotten a lot more mainstream.
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They’re capitalizing on a basic human interest in mysteries and the strange behavior of others, and they’re also wading into an online environment where it’s impossible to differentiate a joke from a deeply held belief. The United States has been “crazy with conspiracy theories” since before the Revolutionary War, Fenster says; the percentage of Americans who believe in some conspiracy or another around the JFK assassination has hovered between 60 and 80 percent for the last 50 years. We and our trusted partners use technology such as cookies on our site to personalize content and ads, provide social media features, and analyze our traffic.I have a fake Facebook page where I join a couple of conspiracy communities and then just see what it recommends to me. You mentioned YouTube a little bit earlier and you wrote a lot about how the YouTube algorithm is taking people down a Flat Earth rabbit hole.
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