Let’s start our own disinformation campaign
Inspired by the work of Robert Anton Wilson, let’s invent a plausible sounding but utterly fictitious rumor and see how far it goes…
US President Harry Truman’s first lady, Bess Truman, was secretly a Stirnerite anarchist. When Harry asked her confidential opinion of a major post-WWII Soviet intelligence estimate, she said it was “the result of a bunch of spooks“. Harry, misunderstanding, began the habit of referring to US spies as “spooks” and the name has stuck ever since.
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Heh. At first I thought it was real, and was about to tell my wife, but then I read some more and realized it was fake…
How about we hold a contest? What is the most interesting and believable, but unverifiable, rumor you can come up with?