Well, here's a weird story that crosses my sci-fi geek side with my Cameraderie geek side... a photographer has encountered a new foe to deal with, so-called Flat Earthers. 
The "Cliff Notes" is that photographer completed a project working with NASA of photographing artifacts from NASA's history to compile into a new book. All good there but when he then ran some ads on Facebook his ads, repeatedly, where first accepted by FB but then after they started running they were subsequently turned off as violating FBs policies. The problem? The "Flat Earthers" on FB kept reporting the ads as being fake or a scam because, you know, the Earth is flat therefore a book promoting space exploration showing a round Earth isn't real. FB would then disable his ads after getting so many complaints about each of them.
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The photographer eventually got it straightened out with FB but, yikes, what a strange world we live in where something as benign as a book of photos has to deal with being challenged by people who believe, of all things, that the Earth is flat!
Here's his Kickstarter.... I may have to look into picking up a copy of this book.
www.kickstarter.com
The "Cliff Notes" is that photographer completed a project working with NASA of photographing artifacts from NASA's history to compile into a new book. All good there but when he then ran some ads on Facebook his ads, repeatedly, where first accepted by FB but then after they started running they were subsequently turned off as violating FBs policies. The problem? The "Flat Earthers" on FB kept reporting the ads as being fake or a scam because, you know, the Earth is flat therefore a book promoting space exploration showing a round Earth isn't real. FB would then disable his ads after getting so many complaints about each of them.
How Flat Earthers Nearly Derailed a Space Photo Book (Published 2019)
What a photographer’s struggle to raise money for his book of images tells us about Facebook and conspiracy theorists.
The photographer eventually got it straightened out with FB but, yikes, what a strange world we live in where something as benign as a book of photos has to deal with being challenged by people who believe, of all things, that the Earth is flat!
Here's his Kickstarter.... I may have to look into picking up a copy of this book.
NASA - PAST AND PRESENT DREAMS OF THE FUTURE
Nine years in the making, 200 images of NASA’s most iconic objects, as you’ve never seen them before. One man’s lifetime obsession.
