This week Slate's David Weigel reviews Among the Truthers: A Journey Through America's Growing Conspiracist Underground, Jonathan Kay's tour of Truthers, Birthers and Vacciners, among other nutty theorists.
The explanation for the apparent explosion of conspiracy groups? Our self-imposed information bubbles:
"The media, as Kay points out, is more fragmented than ever. Information is easier to come across, and bogus information has a way of jumping to the top of Google's search pages. That fragmentation is happening at a time of intense partisan anger and economic angst."(cross-posted from thefilterbubble.com)
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