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Escape from the rabbit hole: the conspiracy theorist who abandoned his dangerous beliefs

www.theguardian.com Escape from the rabbit hole: the conspiracy theorist who abandoned his dangerous beliefs

For 15 years, Brent Lee spent hours each day consuming ‘truther’ content online. Then he logged off. Can he convince his former friends to question their worldview?

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He has been replaced by one of THEM to spread misinformation. Do not listen to the lies of the evil lizards.
- Wow, more chemtrails over Deutschland will fix that view point, let me get working on it.
  
  I'm sitting in a pyramid next to my orgon buster. Good luck trying to mess up my mind!
Conspiracists have a “fantasy of justice”, hoping that the evil-doing elites can be arrested and stopped. “Conspiracy theorists get the facts wrong but often get the feelings right,” she writes. “The feeling that every human misery is someone else’s profit

Insightful.