The research comes up: To the surprising addition of the number of people who believe that the earth is flat is to YouTube

Researchers believe they have identified the first driver for the surprising increase in the number of people who think the earth is flat: the site where the videos are distributed, YouTube, translates Periscope.

Their doubt was raised when they participated in the world's largest Earth-Reafs rally [is under the term, because there is widespread English-language use <x0 flat Earthers] at the annual conference in Rayleigh in North Carolina in 2017, and then in Denver, Colorado, a year later.

Interviews with 30 participants discovered a common in stories of how the earth had come to be convinced that it was not a large stone that spins into space but a huge disk that does the same.

Of these 30 people, 29 said they didn't think the same way two years ago, but they changed their minds after watching videos promoting conspiracy theories on YouTube, there's Periscope.

Some said they were starting to watch videos just to see the inconsistents of theories in question, but then they found themselves believing in them.

Google has refused to provide answers to these findings. /Periscopi