The flatearth teory was promoted with the help of intelligence agencies with the exact aim of discreditting any attempt at
questioning fake narratives they create and want to shove down our throats.
It's called "discredit by association".
Even the term "conspiracy theory", created and popularized by no one else than CIA itself, has this purpose.
Im not a flatearther, yet I think the moon landings were faked, as well as a lot (but not all) of the space program
including most of the mars stuff we've been seeing in the past years, including all shenanigans by Nole Skum's Space X.
Yet, when one says that, the immediate reaction from many people is to call such person a "flat earther" or my favorite term
made even more popular during the covid scam: a "science denier".
Being called a "science denier" is like living in the middle ages again, when you couldnt dare to question the catholic church (the official authority)
or else you'd be labeled as heretic.
The only difference from then and now is that instead of being thrown into the fire, nowadays it is your image and reputation that are
burned into flames via social networks.
That's one of the main purposes of the internet, not only disinformation but mainly SOCIAL CONTROL
That's why the internet was also a project run by the intelligence agencies to begin with.
It was made by DARPA, a military institution, and then later rolled out to the whole population via 2 of intel's most precious assets:
Bill Gates (responsible for bringing one computer into everyone's home)
and Steve Jobs (responsible for bringing one computer into everyone's pocket)
And dont forget Zuckerberg's facebook that by a miraculous "accident" happened to be just an exact copycat of DARPA's Lifelog.
And there you have it, in a nutshell, how to keep the sheep under control in the digital age.
(with the added bonus that modern sheep also help their masters by policing and censoring themselves)
Eric Blair (aka George Orwell) would be envious.
And if you're wondering: yes, Im high AF.