avoiding misinformation, understanding cults, etc
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big list of videos. some contain cursing and/or scary stuff, viewer discretion advised. playlist curated by a random American
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The Ultimate Conspiracy Debunker
Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
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How Internet Censorship Works
The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society
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The best browser for research
Kosmik
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Apophenia Explained | Pareidolia, Confirmation Bias, & Other Pattern Errors
MindfulThinks
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Roblox Is Exploiting Kids. We Talked To Some Of Them.
More Perfect Union
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Why I avoid “aliens” as an explanation
hankschannel
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Why Do People Say Snow is Fake?
The Action Lab
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Information Overload with David Levy
UW iSchool
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Is Anything on the Internet Real?
minutephysics
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YouTube: Before you tap “Share,” hit pause
Hit Pause
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I’ve Stopped Using Google Search! Why you should consider it too.
Ask Leo!
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Why is THIS the power symbol?
LGR
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The Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy | Idea Channel | PBS Digital Studios
PBS Idea Channel
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A Lie I Heard this Week
vlogbrothers
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3 great untruths to stop telling kids—and ourselves | Jonathan Haidt | Big Think
Big Think
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Freedom of Speech: Crash Course Government and Politics #25
CrashCourse
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What is a Thought Terminating Cliché? 🚩
Callie Sorensen - Coercive Control Awareness
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[Private video]
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Chris Shelton | How Cults use Thought Stopping Cliches
Critical Clips
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What's a whataboutism?
Starboy86
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The Danger Of 'WhatAbout-ism" arguments, by John Oliver
Josh Olin
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Jeremy Scahill on the Value of Whataboutism — Intercepted Podcast
The Intercept
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The Confirmation Bias
Sprouts
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Asch’s Conformity Experiment on Groupthink
Sprouts
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What "Orwellian" really means - Noah Tavlin
TED-Ed
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5 Crises Republicans Made up to Distract You | Robert Reich
Robert Reich
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5 Things Shills Don't Want You To Know
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
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Is Donald Trump a Fascist? | Robert Reich
Robert Reich
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Why obvious lies make great propaganda
Vox
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Why You Can't Trust Me
Tom Scott
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The Truth About Subliminal Messages
SciShow Psych
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What is the Dunning Kruger Effect & Is It Even REAL?
Rebecca Watson (Skepchick)
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Will AI destroy the internet and take your job?
How To Cook That
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Why No One Trusts The News
Wisecrack
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How can you you Know the Truth in your News Feed? - Smarter Every Day 212
SmarterEveryDay
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Better Ways to Be Informed
WheezyWaiter
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How do you know if something is true?
Mr. Beat
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Study: How a Hobby Could Save Your Life
Rebecca Watson (Skepchick)
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Everything Sucks Now
Wisecrack
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I Can't Stop Thinking that People Who Deny Climate Change are Lying
hankschannel
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The Milgram Experiment: Obedience to Authority
Sprouts
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What are cults and why do people join them? – BBC REEL
BBC Global
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The nightmare videos of childrens' YouTube — and what's wrong with the internet today | James Bridle
TED
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Manipulating the YouTube Algorithm - (Part 1/3) Smarter Every Day 213
SmarterEveryDay
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Why are people mean on Twitter? - Smarter Every Day 214
SmarterEveryDay
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Who is Manipulating Facebook? - Smarter Every Day 215
SmarterEveryDay
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Reddit Disinformation & How We Beat It Together - Smarter Every Day 232
SmarterEveryDay
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This Video Will Hurt
CGP Grey
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Stop Misusing Logical Fallacies
Professor Dave Explains
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Victim blaming and the "just world" fallacy
Jackie Fox (Jackie Fuchs)
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Ugly History: Witch Hunts - Brian A. Pavlac
TED-Ed
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What is McCarthyism? And how did it happen? - Ellen Schrecker
TED-Ed
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Bonhoeffer‘s Theory of Stupidity
Sprouts
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Monica Lewinsky and Jon Ronson on How Social-Media Shaming Turns Us All into Bullies
Vanity Fair
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Berkeley professor explains gender theory | Judith Butler
Big Think
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Judith Butler's Theory of Gender Performativity, Explained
Film & Media Studies
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Ian Bremmer - "Us vs. Them" and America's Place on the World Stage | The Daily Show
The Daily Show
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THE PROBLEM WITH SOCIAL MEDIA JUSTICE - Double Toasted
Double Toasted
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How Milton Friedman Broke The American Economy | The Class Room Ft. @FDSignifire
More Perfect Union
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A Brief History Of The Man Who Brainwashed America: Edward Bernays
A Day In History
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Uri Geller is Still a Giant Fraud, Despite the Glowing NY Times Profile
Rebecca Watson (Skepchick)
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Who Started the Flat Earth Conspiracy Theory, How Many Believe This, and What Do They Believe?
Today I Found Out
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Why your phone is making you sad
AsapSCIENCE
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Can't Focus? It's Not Your Fault, You're Being Tricked. This is How.
Thoughty2
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Suspend Your Disbelief (or, how to ruin everything in 7 steps)
Vihart
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Are We Wrong About Spoilers?
Wisecrack
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How Brands Got Depressed (Burger King, SunnyD) – Wisecrack Vlog
Wisecrack
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The Late Capitalism of Fast Food Twitter
Sarah Z
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PewDiePipeline 2: How to Shut it Down
NonCompete
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Daryl Davis on converting 200 white supremacists to leave the KKK
Russell Howard
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The Insane Truth About The NXIVM Pyramid Scheme Revealed To Be Even More Dangerous and Disturbing...
Philip DeFranco
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[Private video]
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Why is Everything a Cult Now?
Wisecrack
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Noam Chomsky on Fascism: Could It Happen Here?
Democracy Now!
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How to Lie While Telling the Truth
vlogbrothers
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DoubleSpeak, How to Lie without Lying
What I've Learned
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Could the United States Have Another Civil War?
The Infographics Show
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What Happened to the News
Knowing Better
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George Orwell's 4 Tips For Speaking Clearly
Alex O'Connor
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Gather 'round the Gaslight | Lying
Knowing Better
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How to ungaslight kids
DoctorRamani
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Clearing the Planet | Scientology
Knowing Better
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How Neopets Was Sold to Scientologists
People Make Games
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The Voltron of BS: Supplements Made by Mormon Scientologists
Rebecca Watson (Skepchick)
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Who Is Anna Sorokin? What To Know About The Fake Heiress Dubbed The 'Soho Grifter'| TIME
TIME
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The Rise and Fall of Dan Nainan
Oki's Weird Stories
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Mike Portnoy Impostor Robs Gay Men in NYC - Tales From Music
Whang!
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The Cave was just Catfished? - Setting the Record Straight
RMC - The Cave
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The Plain View Project Exposes Pervasive Police Racism | The Daily Show
The Daily Show
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What Do Mirror Neurons Really Do?
SciShow Psych
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Neurologist V.S. Ramachandran on the Mirror Neuron Effect
FORA.tv
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Trolly Problem Memes (But Taking Them Seriously)
Alex O'Connor
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The Trolley Problem in Real Life
Vsauce
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Taking Stupid Trolley Problem Memes Seriously (Again)
Alex O'Connor
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The Making (And Unmaking) of a YouTube Radical
David Pakman Show
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How Can People Believe Dowsing Is Real? | Ars Technica
Ars Technica
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Mercury retrograde, explained WITHOUT astrology
Vox
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Why Is Bacon Considered A Breakfast Food?
BrainStuff - HowStuffWorks
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Are GMO Foods Safe? | Ars Technica
Ars Technica
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Corn Shouldn't Be Food, But It Is
SciShow
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What is high-fructose corn syrup, and is it actually bad for you?
Adam Ragusea
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Exposing Dangerous how-to videos 5-Minute Crafts & So Yummy | How To Cook That Ann Reardon
How To Cook That
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Corn Shouldn't Be Food, But It Is
SciShow
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What is high-fructose corn syrup, and is it actually bad for you?
Adam Ragusea
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Exposing Dangerous how-to videos 5-Minute Crafts & So Yummy | How To Cook That Ann Reardon
How To Cook That
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Blossom's Fake Video Exposed by food scientist | How To Cook That Ann Reardon
How To Cook That
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Is 5-Minute Crafts the WORST channel on YouTube?
How To Cook That
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Is So Yummy the WORST baking channel on YouTube?
How To Cook That
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7 Common Myths About ADHD That Stigmatize People
Dr. Tracey Marks
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Is it ableist to talk about narcissistic ab***?
DoctorRamani
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What VICE Didn't Tell You About Borrachero | Safe Travels | World Nomads
World Nomads
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How Conspiracies Changed (Flat Earth, Anti-Vaxxers) – Wisecrack Edition
Wisecrack
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Propaganda and Influence | Digging Deeper
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
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7 Propaganda Techniques Used on You Every Day
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
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What is propaganda? | Jason Stanley | Explain It Like I’m Smart by Big Think
Big Think
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Police Interrogations: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
LastWeekTonight
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Can Learning Make You Dumb? Yes.
Vsauce2
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false equivalents | qualiasoup & theramintrees [cc]
TheraminTrees
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double binds | narcissistic ‘no-win’ mind games [cc]
TheraminTrees
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For the undying 9/11 MORONIC JET FUEL ARGUMENT
purgatoryironworks
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General Sherman and Total War: Sherman's Neckties
mrgreen1066
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If You Don't Want To Be Called A Fascist, Stop Supporting Donald Trump, A Fascist - SOME MORE NEWS
Some More News
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The Contrepreneur Formula Remastered (False Copyright Claim)
Mike Winnet
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Exposing 8 Viral Video Tricks That Will Blow Your Mind | DEBUNKING 2020 How To Cook That Ann Reardon
How To Cook That
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I Debunked Every "Body Language Expert" on Youtube
münecat
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How Censorship Changed
Wisecrack
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Can You Trust the Media? | Manufacturing Consent Explained
Second Thought
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Noam Chomsky - Manufacturing Consent
Chomsky's Philosophy
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Disinformation abounds in the wellness community. How one anti-vax influencer broke free.
PBS NewsHour
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Misinformation & Propaganda as Russia Invades Ukraine
Rebecca Watson (Skepchick)
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Jon Stewart is Wrong: You Can't Engage with Joe Rogan
Rebecca Watson (Skepchick)
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What Happened to Jon Stewart? — A Retrospective
Skip Intro
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Are Dogs and Cats on TikTok Really "Talking" with Buttons?
Rebecca Watson (Skepchick)
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Grasshoppers, Locusts & Human Nature
Andrewism
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How To Overthrow The Illuminati
Andrewism
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How To Make Communist Propaganda
Second Thought
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Were The Nazis Socialist?
Second Thought
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Don’t Watch This
The Infographics Show
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Why your brain believes everything | Neuroscientist Amishi Jha
Big Think
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Break Bread
F.D Signifier
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Perhaps Ben Shapiro Shouldn't Be Taken Seriously By Anyone About Anything - SOME MORE NEWS
Some More News
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[Private video]
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Line Goes Up – The Problem With NFTs
Folding Ideas
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Former Cult Member Rates 11 Cult Scenes From Movies And TV | How Real Is It? | Insider
Insider
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Cult Leaders : Narcissistic Personality Disorder
ReportCultAbuse
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CULT Leader
ReportCultAbuse
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Heaven's Gate - documentary
ReportCultAbuse
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Banned Documentary - Conspiracy Of Silence - full documentary
ReportCultAbuse
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Cult Documentary - Evil Cult Leaders
ReportCultAbuse
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Cults - Dangerous Devotion (Decoding the Past)
ReportCultAbuse
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Sheffield Doc/Fest - 2011 - How to be a Cult Leader
Sheffield DocFest
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What if we used 100% of the brain?
Vanegood
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Cult Mentality : How Not To Be Stupid!
ReportCultAbuse
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Cult Groups : How Cultic Persuasion Works ?
ReportCultAbuse
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Robert Evans: Are We In a Second Civil War?
The Zero Hour with RJ Eskow
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Alex Jones Interview
Channel 5 with Andrew Callaghan
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Jonah Goldberg - "Suicide of the West" and Preserving the American Experiment | The Daily Show
The Daily Show
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Primary EVERY Dem Who Doesn't Have Ilhan Omar's Back
The Majority Report w/ Sam Seder
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How the internet is fueling domestic extremism in America | Jared Holt | TEDxPearlStreet
TEDx Talks
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The End of Art: An Argument Against Image AIs
Steven Zapata Art
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AI Art Apocalypse
Fran Blanche
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What's ACTUALLY Scary about Bing's "Artificial Intelligence"
Rebecca Watson (Skepchick)
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The Biggest Problem with AI!
Marques Brownlee
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Big Oil Bought my Favorite Science Influencer
Rebecca Watson (Skepchick)
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The Many Errors of An Inconvenient Truth
Simon Clark
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What Really Happened with the Substation Attack in North Carolina?
Practical Engineering
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Why No One is Talking about the Ohio Train Derailment (and Other Conspiracies)
Rebecca Watson (Skepchick)
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Why Is American Patriotism So Weird?
Second Thought
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Do We Really Live Under Capitalism?
Second Thought
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Disabilities in Prehistory
TREY the Explainer
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Music Theory and White Supremacy
Adam Neely
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You Are Lied to Every Day
DarkMatter2525
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American Fascism And The Groomer Panic
Second Thought
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Left Behind and the Translation of God | Renegade Cut
Renegade Cut
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Journalist Thinks Trans Kids Are Getting Hormones to Turn into Helicopters
Rebecca Watson (Skepchick)
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I was Wrong about False Memories
Rebecca Watson (Skepchick)
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physics crackpots: a 'theory'
Angela Collier
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Where Did All The Smart People Go?
Wisecrack
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How to Spot a (Potential) Fasc!st
Tom Nicholas
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Who’s Afraid of Modern Art: Vandalism, Video Games, and Fascism
Jacob Geller
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How Wisdom Can Protect Humanity from Technology
Center for Humane Technology
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The Alt-Right Playbook: You Can't Get Snakes from Chicken Eggs
Innuendo Studios
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The Alt-Right Playbook: How to Radicalize a Normie
Innuendo Studios
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Why Nerds Joined the Alt-Right
Cheyenne Lin
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How YouTube Became a Perpetual Nazi Machine | BEHIND THE BASTARDS
Behind the Bastards
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Artificial Intelligence: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
LastWeekTonight
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Part Six: A Complete History of the Illuminati | BEHIND THE BASTARDS
Behind the Bastards
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Part One: Behind the Swastika | BEHIND THE BASTARDS
Behind the Bastards
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How Corporate Greed Destroyed East Palestine
Second Thought
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Does Wealth Break Your Brain?
Wisecrack
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Bernie Sanders spells out why capitalism is failing us | Down the pub with Bernie Sanders
PoliticsJOE
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How to write badly about technology
Liberality
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How Companies Plan The Economy
Second Thought
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Made to Break: Why Everything We Buy Today Is Trash
Cheyenne Lin
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Investigation: How Roblox Is Exploiting Young Game Developers
People Make Games
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Roblox Pressured Us to Delete Our Video. So We Dug Deeper.
People Make Games
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Manufactured Discontent and Fortnite
Folding Ideas
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The Future is a Dead Mall - Decentraland and the Metaverse
Folding Ideas
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No, Idiocracy Is Not A Documentary
Sarah Z
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Left-wing Authoritarianism: Is It Even Real?
Rebecca Watson (Skepchick)
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Scientists Endorsing Biden Made Trump Supporters Trust Scientists Less
Rebecca Watson (Skepchick)
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How the US & UK Led to Uganda's New "Kill the Gays" Bill
Rebecca Watson (Skepchick)
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This MLM Influencer may get Someone Killed
Rebecca Watson (Skepchick)
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The Truth about Jesus, Easter, Pagans, and Bunnies Laying Eggs
Rebecca Watson (Skepchick)
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Why ChatGPT Won't Replace Your Doctor Anytime Soon
Rebecca Watson (Skepchick)
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