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Conspiracy Spreaders Who Don’t Believe Their Lies

H. Colleen Sinclair The Conversation
Our research has found that some of the people sharing conspiracies online don’t believe their own content. They are opportunists: the extremists, the disinformants, the trolls, and the profiteers.

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South Park Raised a Generation of Trolls

Sean O'Neal AV Club
“Did South Park accidentally invent the alt-right?” Janan Ganesh asked recently in the Financial Times, articulating a theory that began gaining traction as an entire political movement seemed to crystallize around the show’s “anti-PC chic” and general fuck-your-feelings attitude.
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