Escape from the rabbit hole: the conspiracy theorist who abandoned his dangerous beliefs
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?
Says he stepped away in 2018. Interesting to note that's about when conspiracy forums took a hard turn right and went from "everyone is secretly out to get you" to "liberals are evil and the only uncorrupt bright spot in this world is conservatism and our lord, Donald J Trump."
I guess the party just wasn't as fun anymore after everyone stopped talking about aliens and started talking about things like The Storm™️. This isn't a story of someone breaking free from Qanon or the Cult of Donald. This is an OG conspiracy theorist who saw his spaces get taken over by this new wave of partisan conspiracies and went "yikes, you guys are crazy! I'm getting out of here!"
He has been replaced by one of THEM to spread misinformation.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.