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Facebook posts stated on May 20, 2024 in a video:
Footage “shows a completely flat horizon proving the flat Earth and completely destroying the globe theory.”
By Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu• May 29, 2024
Viral image stated on March 11, 2023 in an Instagram post:
Elon Musk tweeted, “The world is flat.”
By Ciara O'Rourke• March 13, 2023
Viral image stated on May 15, 2022 in a Facebook post:
Photo from “data leak at Elon Musk AND NASA … are said to be from one of Elon Musk’s Space-X satellites.”
By Ciara O'Rourke• May 18, 2022
Facebook posts stated on April 06, 2024 in a Facebook reel:
There are no real pictures of satellites on Google Images because outer space is not real.
By Sofia Ahmed• April 18, 2024
Facebook posts stated on April 20, 2023 in an image:
The ocean is "flat" and "contained" by land features that jut up from a flat (not spherical) earth.
By Andy Nguyen• April 28, 2023
B.o.B. stated on January 25, 2016 in in a Jan. 25 tweet:
"You've been tremendously deceived" by people who say the Earth is not flat.
By Lauren Carroll• February 1, 2016
Instagram posts stated on April 02, 2023 in an Instagram post:
Videos show former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton discussing a glass dome over Earth.
By Ciara O'Rourke• April 4, 2023
Viral image stated on September 13, 2022 in an Instagram post:
“The sun is not 93 million miles away … it is local and under a firmament dome.”
By Ciara O'Rourke• September 14, 2022
Viral image stated on September 06, 2022 in an Instagram post:
Video proves “space is fake.”
By Ciara O'Rourke• September 9, 2022
Viral image stated on April 23, 2021 in a Facebook post:
Photo shows Facebook’s “community standards team.”
By Ciara O'Rourke• April 27, 2021
Instagram posts stated on September 06, 2022 in an Instagram post:
Astronaut Karen Nyberg filmed what “was supposedly a video from space” in front of a green screen.
By Ciara O'Rourke• September 9, 2022
Instagram posts stated on October 25, 2022 in Instagram post:
“If outer space was a vacuum, astronauts would train in vacuum chambers. Not in swimming pools. Outer Space is a hoax.”
By Michael Majchrowicz• November 1, 2022
Facebook posts stated on July 12, 2022 in a Facebook post:
Claims the James Webb Space Telescope is “fakery they got for the masses”
By Andy Nguyen• July 18, 2022
Instagram posts stated on February 05, 2023 in an Instagram post:
“‘Satellites’ are on balloons and not in space.”
By Sara Swann• February 7, 2023
Instagram posts stated on October 17, 2022 in an Instagram post:
Video shows Hillary Clinton talking about a glass dome over the Earth.
By Ciara O'Rourke• October 19, 2022
Steve Goreham stated on August 05, 2013 in a commentary in The Providence Journal:
"Global surface temperatures have been flat for 16 years."
By C. Eugene Emery Jr.• August 25, 2013
Patrick Moore stated on March 11, 2014 in an interview on 'Hannity':
Earth "has not warmed for the last 17 years."
By Katie Sanders• March 17, 2014
Instagram posts stated on July 13, 2023 in an Instagram post:
“No human is allowed to travel to Antarctica.”
By Ciara O'Rourke• July 14, 2023
Instagram posts stated on July 25, 2023 in an Instagram post:
When Bill Nye said “the Earth is a closed system,” he suggested space exploration is impossible.
By Loreben Tuquero• July 26, 2023
Viral image stated on July 17, 2022 in a Facebook post:
“Antarctica is not a continent.”
By Ciara O'Rourke• July 19, 2022

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By Maria Briceño, Marta Campabadal Graus• April 25, 2023

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By Bill McCarthy• August 5, 2020

Fact-checking pundits on climate change

By Katie Sanders• September 23, 2014

Earth Day 2016: 6 things to know about climate change

By Linda Qiu• April 21, 2016

The Earth has rapidly warmed over the past century. Can politics slow it?

By Daniel Funke• October 28, 2019

Obama and Romney square off over international relations

By Jim Tharpe• November 3, 2012

Facebook meme wrongly accuses GOP 2016 hopefuls on dinosaurs

By Tim Ryan• March 26, 2014

Space litter is a huge risk to satellites, and there's no way yet to clean it up

By Jon Greenberg• November 6, 2019

Earth, wind and fire

By Robert Farley• February 20, 2009

The pundits, 0 for 3

By Bill Adair• October 28, 2009

Climate change: the Readers' Choice winner

By Lauren Carroll• December 17, 2014

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Jon Huntsman and the Truth-O-Meter

By Louis Jacobson• December 25, 2011

UPDATED: Curious claims we heard at the Texas Tribune Festival

By W. Gardner Selby• October 18, 2015

The Truth-O-Meter takes on the polar vortex

By Julie Kliegman• January 7, 2014

CO2 is only 0.04% of the atmosphere, but a viral video ignores that it’s a major climate threat

By Tom Kertscher• April 21, 2023

Fact-checking recent claims about climate change

By Amy Sherman• May 30, 2014

Fact-checking recent claims about climate change

By Amy Sherman• May 29, 2014

Rick Perry said his tax plan produces tax cuts for all

By Martha M. Hamilton, W. Gardner Selby• November 7, 2011