Conspiracy Theories and Political Polarisations

In this episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, Ricardo Silvestre (Movimento Liberal Social) welcomes Wilbert Jan Derksen. Wilbert Jan is a political researcher, who works for the TeldersStichting (Telders Foundation in English). They talk about the article wrote by Wilbert Jan for the ELF publication “Beyond Flat Earth: Conspiracy Theories vs European Liberals”, with the title “From UFO’s to conspiracy entrepreneurialism”.   

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The documentary that Ricardo mention during the conversation, “The Social Dilemma” can be found here, and you can know more about the… “tribulations” of Alex Jones here and here.

Wilbert Jan’s article on the “Beyond Flat Earth: Conspiracy Theories vs European Liberals” book can be found here.