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by quadrangle 2925 days ago
That's far too simplistic. Naive people with no bias to start with can and do go down bizarre YouTube rabbit-holes and end up becoming flat-earthers or something else crazy.

In fact, most of today's flat-earthers seem to be primarily driven by the arguments from flat-earth claims and nothing more: https://www.theguardian.com/global/2018/may/27/is-the-earth-...