Multi-award-winning comedian, travel writer and columnist, Dom Joly sets out on a global journey, immersing himself in the strange world of conspiracies.
Conspiracy theories used to be fun, a bit of laugh. Did we really land on the moon? Was Paul McCartney cloned? Nowadays, however, in the aftermath of a global pandemic, and with the ever increasing influence of social media algorithms, they are part of the body politic and a massive cause of division and mistrust.
Joly’s travels see him meeting followers of QAnon in Cornwall and some New Age-ers in Glastonbury; hunting for UFOs in New Mexico; chasing Alex Jones of Info Wars around Austin, Texas; trying to prove that Finland exists and taking a flat-earther to the edge of the world. He finds the funny and the quirky, but also attempts to understand what makes people so drawn to conspiracy theories.

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