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Conspiracy: Hitler’s escape to South America

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The Rise of the Hitler Conspiracy Theorists

There's been a massive increase in the number spread of conspiracy theories. I think a large part of this has got to do with the internet and social media because they're not censored. The gatekeepers of opinion expression newspaper editors radio and tv producers have now been sidelined by the uncensored uncontrolled internet. You can put out whatever views you like so long as they are not illegal or as long as they don't amount to hate crime. It's partly a consequence of the influence of post-modernist relativism at least in the universities, it's also of course the politicians they are populists. We have politicians who have no regard for the truth at all and just lie and lie and

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