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> Conspiracy belief is a growing issue, thanks to an “expanded marketplace for conspiracy theories” online and on social media platforms, Pennycook said.

Biases that are strengthened by for-profit disinformation business.

Which raises an interesting point: In another time is sociological history, fringe thinking would have had to overcome a much more robust social challenge.

People "on the edge", who might have re-calibrated effectively, have become less likely to self-critique.

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