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Re:Reddit Has Become a Battleground of Alleged Chinese Trolls by astine on Friday March 15, 2019 @12:57PM (#19401586)
The time cube was the product of a single, elderly, schizophrenic man. People in that demographic post to Facebook these days, I think.

Flat earth, I think, is caused by crazy people finding it easier to find each other with the Internet and social media, and putting together communities on the Internet.

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Re:Reddit Has Become a Battleground of Alleged Chinese Trolls by cthalupa on Friday March 15, 2019 @02:22PM (#19402632)
The "main" Flat Earth Society (tfes.org) isn't made up of people that believe that the earth is flat - they are trolls. I'm sure there are plenty of 'True Believers' out there, but they're just as fringe as any other conspiracy theory.
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Re:Reddit Has Become a Battleground of Alleged Chinese Trolls by y4mi on Friday March 15, 2019 @03:04PM (#19403066)
It started as a joke by trolls. It's debatable if it still is
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