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"'''{{PAGENAME}}'''" is a social network for "flat earthers" to connect and to provide an echo chamber among like-minded people.


The app serves a "clock" that tries (and fails) to show how day/night does progress on a Flat earth, and serves as a platform for content to reinforce science denial regarding everything we learned about our universe.
The app serves a "clock" that tries (and fails) to show how day/night does progress on a Flat earth, and serves as a platform for content to reinforce science denial regarding everything we learned about our universe.
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Revision as of 16:27, 22 February 2025

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Flat Earth Clock App
Basic Information
Release Year 2016
Product Type Mobile Social Network
In Production Yes
Official Website https://flatearthdave.com/

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"Flat Earth Clock App" is a social network for "flat earthers" to connect and to provide an echo chamber among like-minded people.

The app serves a "clock" that tries (and fails) to show how day/night does progress on a Flat earth, and serves as a platform for content to reinforce science denial regarding everything we learned about our universe.

As being a "flat earther" has the common side effect of one losing real human connections/friends even family in some cases, the creator David Weiss, capitalizes on people that are easy to manipulate, providing the platform as a replacement.

The application is available in the Google Play Store[1] and Apple's App Store[2] respectively for a one time payment of $3 (no trial), and in-app purchases in the form of a subscription for a "friend finder feature" despite being reported multiple times by several individuals, including myself of major breaches of security, privacy, wrong statements about collected data and breaches of EU and US regulations.

Consumer Impacts

  • Reinforcement of science denial
  • Major violations in privacy regulations in the US and the EU
  • Data breaches spanning over multiple years including some that published all usernames, emails, locations and plain text passwords.
  • Publishing of realtime locations (latitude/longitude) of all registered users without consent.

Consumer impact summary

Incidents

This is a list of all consumer protection incidents related to this product. Any incidents not mentioned here can be found in the Flat Earth Clock App category.

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See also

A comprehensive (but incomplete to protect actual members) list of the security breaches was compiled years ago, mostly ignored by the creator or used to gain more media traction by calling out the people who informed him of the shortcomings.

On February 7, 2025 part of these issues were released on Github[3] and after 3 years of non-compliance by the creator a 90 day warning period was given.

"McToon", a notable debunker of science deniers on YouTube and a developer himself, posted a video detailing some of the shortcomings and issues[4].

References