In my country, there was a flat-earthers convention some time ago. It was going to happen in a small town, and the media took it as a funny thing to report on.

In my country, there was a flat-earthers convention some time ago. It was going to happen in a small town, and the media took it as a funny thing to report on. One journalist actually went there, and reported about it... What at first seemed like a funny thing, turned out to be kind of scary. Yeah, there were a few small talks about flat earth. The rest of the day, the talks were mainly about about anti-vaccines, "New Germanic medicine", nationalism, white race superiority, antisemitism, etc... I guess a group of neo-nazis were smart enough to use the "flat earth" talks as a means to attract Mass Media's attention, to get them to publicize their convention for free. Here's the article about it (google translate from spanish): https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=es&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.infobae.com%2Fopinion%2F2019%2F03%2F06%2Fla-tierra-es-plana-nacionalista-y-antisemita%2F https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=es&tl=en&u=h... --- PS: I don't get the reason for the downvotes... I'm not saying "flat earth = neonazis" nor giving any opinion at all. I'm just telling the anecdote (and linking the source) of how some people used "flat earth" for manipulating mass media into getting free publicity for their convention.