Another angle to this that supports the boredom theory is the large number of Facebook boomers who fall into these conspiracy theory channels. Many are presumably recently retired and don’t know what to do with themselves.
Reposted from Julian Sanchez
I suspect this is a HUGELY underestimated factor in radicalization. If you look at, say, QAnon boards, it’s not really folks looking for scapegoats for their dire material circumstances. It’s middle-class people with boring lives who want to imagine they’re in The Parallax View.

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