![]() ![]() It’s located on an unfriendly bit of highway, so few of us leave, opting instead to mill about in this enclosed world of hotel and restaurant and conference center. The conference that drew hundreds took place Thursday and Friday at the Crowne Plaza, a Denver airport hotel and convention center. In an age of rising conspiracy theories- voter fraud, QAnon, anti-vaxxers, chemtrails-Flat Earth might be the most foundational conspiracy theory of them all. It’s whole world view, a level plane onto which hucksters, trolls, and Christian fundamentalists can insert their own ideologies. For true believers, it’s more than just a conspiracy theory. They’ve found their voice in the disinformation age, fueled by YouTube videos. Thousands of years after ancient Greeks began referencing Earth as a sphere in mathematical proofs, people who believe in a flat Earth have become a movement. ![]() As of yesterday, ‘Flat earth Bob’ - as he is also known - had secured $6,899 in funding.“Globalism,” she repeats, and draws a circle with her hands to illustrate. Last November last year, he began a crowdfunding campaign, seeking to raise $1 million with the aim of launching satellites into space to obtain proof. The US rapper B.o.B (real name Bobby Ray Simmons Jr) has also told his followers the earth is flat. They include Kyrie Irving, one of the big stars of US professional basketball, who repeatedly insisted the earth was flat in a podcast in February 2017 that went round the world - or at least would have done if the globe was basketball shaped. Then there are the prominent flat earthers with internet disciples. Many believe in a range of conspiracy theories that include, for obvious reasons, an insistence the moon landings and other Nasa footage were faked. Over the same period Facebook groups and YouTube accounts promoting the flat earth theory have racked up tens of thousands of followers. During the last five years, online Google searches in the UK for the phrase “flat earth” have risen tenfold, according to Google Trends. ![]()
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