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The problem with this is that while it's super easy to look up facts, it's also super easy to spread false information on the web and make it look official and correct. It's quite amazing how many conspiracy videos are on youtube (along with 'true believers' sharing them on facebook). You can look at it as enabling niche information to get out, or you can look at it as a mass fleecing of a generation.



There are trolls on Twitter who make it their mission to make big media fall for big-ass lies, like the death of heads of state, etc.


Whatever you do, never look up Velikovsky or Von Däniken. It will shatter your ideal image of the pre-Internet era as one when idiotic nonsense didn't spread.




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