Geno Smith appeared to join Kyrie Irving in embracing flat Earth conspiracies, and the internet went nuts

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• Geno Smith appeared to embrace flat Earth theories in a series of tweets on Saturday.
• Smith took time to retweet arguments from both sides of the debate, encouraging people to question the “truths” laid before them.
• In the end, Smith walked back his original comments slightly, claiming that the tweets were all in the name of starting conversation.

Geno Smith made news on Saturday before the NFL offseason could even start, but it had nothing to do with his future in football.

The New York Giants quarterback, like Kyrie Irving before him, appeared to embrace flat Earth theories in a series of tweets, asking his followers not to believe everything that they read and do their own research before rushing to judgment.

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