Why Conspiracy Theories Work so Well on Facebook

Are we all just clicks away from identifying as ‘flat-Earthers’?

Erin Schumaker
OneZero
Published in
8 min readMar 5, 2019

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PPanic attacks were common. Employees joked about suicide, had sex in the stairwells, and smoked weed on break.

A disturbing investigative report by the Verge last week revealed that some of Facebook’s contract moderators—who are tasked with keeping…

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