Linda McMahon, appointed by Donald Trump as Secretary of Education, follows a prominent flat earth account on Twitter while overseeing plans to dismantle the very department she leads. McMahon’s personal account, @linda_mcmahon, which describes her as the “13th Secretary of Education” serving “under the leadership of @POTUS,” follows @FELibrary_, an account called “Flat Earth Library.”
The page, created in May 2024, describes itself as an “awake flat earther, truther and pattern recognitionist” and promotes flat earth and anti-science conspiracies to more than 98,000 followers. McMahon’s decision to follow the page occurred sometime over the past 16 months.
The Flat Earth Library account posts content denying gravity, evolution, and space exploration, insisting the Earth is surrounded by