"The only person who didn’t say this was there with his daughter and his son-in-law and they had seen it on YouTube and told him about it," Landrum told The Guardian. What she found was ominous: nearly everyone said they'd first been exposed to the theory on YouTube. Texas Tech University researcher Asheley Landrum interviewed 30 attendees at two consecutive meetings of the world's largest annual conference of Flat Earthers. If you feel as though there are a growing number of people online who think the world is flat - a peculiar conspiracy theory that ignores centuries of evidence that the planet is actually round - you might not be wrong.Īccording to an alarming new study, the alarming growth of the number of people who think the Earth is flat is directly tied to the growth of conspiracy theories on YouTube - a worrisome sign of online algorithms' ability to mainline bad information in vulnerable populations.
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