Editing Modern flat Earth beliefs (section)

===Italy===
In Italy, there are no centralised societies on flat Earth. However, since the 2010s, small groups of conspiracy theorists, who carry out meetings, started to emerge and to spread flat Earth theories. Among these are Calogero Greco, Albino Galuppini and Agostino Favari, who in 2018–2019 organised several meetings in [[Palermo]], [[Sicily]], with an entry price of [[Euro|€]]20.<ref name=ItalyFE>{{cite web|language=it|title=Terrapiattisti a Palermo: "Lo sbarco sulla luna è una invenzione" (Flat Earth in Palermo: "Moon landing is fiction")|date=11 May 2019|access-date=22 July 2019|website=[[Adnkronos]]|url=https://www.adnkronos.com/fatti/cronaca/2019/05/11/terrapiattisti-palermo-sbarco-sulla-luna-una-invenzione_qp89IcCYJyNifqCYnb9HQK.html?refresh_ce}}</ref><ref name=ItalyFE2>{{cite web|language=it|url=https://www.ilmessaggero.it/scienza/terrapiattisti_convegno_palermo_ultime_notizie_oggi_12_maggio_2019-4486635.html|date=12 May 2019|access-date=22 July 2019|title=Terrapiattisti a Palermo, ma Beppe Grillo non c'è. "La Nasa? È come Disneyland" (Flat Earth in Palermo, but Beppe Grillo is not there. "NASA? It's like Disneyland")|website=[[Il Messaggero]]}}</ref>

Among their claims, some include:
* NASA is similar to [[Disneyland]] and that [[astronaut]]s are actors.<ref name=ItalyFE/><ref name=ItalyFE2/>
* The April 2019 photo of the [[supermassive black hole]] at the core of the [[Type-cD galaxy|supergiant]] [[elliptical galaxy]] [[Messier 87]] is fake.<ref name=ItalyFE2/>
* The proof Earth is flat can be demonstrated with a filled bottle where, if placed horizontally, water never curves.<ref name=ItalyFE/><ref name=ItalyFE2/>

In addition to these, it is their common belief that the United States has a plan to create in Europe a new America [[Free migration|open to everyone]], where the only value is [[consumerism]] and that [[George Soros]] commands a [[Satanism|satanic]] [[Globalism|globalist]] conspiracy.<ref name=ItalyFE/><ref name=ItalyFE2/> They reject the past existence of dinosaurs, the [[Charles Darwin|Darwinian]] [[evolution|theory of evolution]], and the authority of the [[scientific community]], claiming scientists are [[Freemasonry|Freemasons]].<ref>{{cite magazine|language=it|title=Il terrapiattismo italiano in 10 punti (Italian flat Earth in 10 points)|date=29 November 2018|access-date=22 July 2019|magazine=[[Wired (magazine)|Wired]]|url=https://www.wired.it/attualita/media/2018/11/29/terrapiattismo-italiano/}}</ref>

Former [[List of leaders of the Five Star Movement|leader of the Five Star Movement]] political party [[Beppe Grillo]] showed interest in the group, admitting to admiring their [[Freedom of speech|free speech]] spirit and to wanting to participate at the May 2019 conference.<ref>{{cite web|language=it|title=BEPPE GRILLO: "VADO AL CONGRESSO DEI TERRAPIATTISTI"|trans-title=BEPPE GRILLO: "I'LL PARTICIPATE FLAT EARTH CONFERENCE"|website=digitale.it|date=29 April 2019|access-date=22 July 2019|url=https://www.ildigitale.it/beppe-grillo-vado-al-congresso-dei-terrapiattisti/}}</ref> However, Grillo did not appear.<ref name=ItalyFE2/>