Famous Fake news: The earth is flat.

 "The Earth is flat" is a famous fake news story stated in the media that created many conflicts and arguments between people. This statement was all over social media, whereas people talk about and have debates if it is true or not. Here are some information about this Fake news "The earth is flat"

First of all, this theory of the Earth being flat began in 2017, and gave people the chaos of thinking about the earth being flat. This theory came from a rapper named, Bobby Ray Simmons Jr, where he wanted to prove that the earth is built like a disc and not global. His statement have become famous around the world where he started the alarming of this "Earth is flat" news to begin. 

Many has followed him in his beliefs where everyone also starts to question scientists if the earth is flat or a global shape. This rapper's goal was to prove it to people by raising 1 million dollars, with the aim of sending one or more aircraft into space to help him find the curvature of the earth. However, the rapper's goal did not go as planned, but made it alarming since numerous of people have also believed in this earth is flat theory. His information of stating that the earth is flat, made people agree and had shared this all over social media. The scientist have not notice this right away, and took an action right back of stating the truth with specific evidence why the earth is round. Scientists have made many presentations about this and did their ways to provide examples of earth being round. 

These are some reasons of why the earth is round based by scientists. So why are planets round? Based on science, the planet is round because of gravity. Gravity pulls from the center to the edges like the spokes of a bicycle wheel. This makes an overall shape of a planet a sphere, which is a three-dimensional circle. 

https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/planets-round/en/

This site have some information about the Earth being Round.