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Kelly Weill, Off the Edge: Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything

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The Unseen Purpose of the United Nations

One of my favorite conspiracy theories that popped up in the book just because I had never encountered it before. Charles K. Johnson believed the United Nations was part of a broad political plot. He thought that it was kind of a one-world government-type organization. And strangely, that claim has endured in some form in modern flat earth. But they don't believe now that the United Nations are a secretly pro-flat earth organization.

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