For millions of Brazilians, the Earth is flat According to Anderson Neves, the Earth is flat and does not rotate, the sun and the moon are close to the world, within a large dome that surrounds our flattened planet. Like him, 7 percent of the Brazilian population think that the Earth is flat, according to the Brazilian polling institute Datafolha (2019), and the movement is particularly active on the Internet and social media platforms. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES