![]() ![]() Weill started Off the Edge when she noticed Flat Earthers repeatedly cropping up in the far and alt-right chat groups and websites she was covering. ![]() Weill covers extremism, disinformation, and the Internet for The Daily Beast, a website whose tagline is “a smart, speedy take on news from around the world.” (A previous editor-in-chief described it as a “high-end tabloid.”) Like the site, the book is well-researched and makes for quick and entertaining, if disturbing, reading. But it is a whole different world now, conspiracy-theory-wise, so Kelly Weill thought an update was in order. It is the second such book, in fact Christine Garwood wrote Flat Earth: The History of an Infamous Idea in 2007. It does get there, but really it is a book about the history of the Flat Earth movement as the sort of original conspiracy theory. Off the Edge is not a book about conspiracy theories, exactly.
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