Erm... It was intended to be ironic. Well, paradoxical, technically. Compare my final sentence
Remember, not so long ago, the almost-universal opinion would have been that the world was flat.
with the classic "This statement is false".
If my statement were true, it would illustrate a problem with Google's proposal.
But as my statement is false, it is itself a demonstration of the problem, because it perpetuates a myth sufficiently popular that it even has its own Wikipedia page. I was a little surprised that I couldn't also find it on Snopes.
Anyway, it's disappointing that no-one seems to have noticed that. Were none of you even a little suspicious about a post that in one paragraph said "Just because something gets repeated a lot, that doesn't make it factually correct" and then repeated one of the most popular myths there is? Really?