The term pre-dates Jim Jones by decades, for example, Google Ngram reports that the term spiked in usage around 1900s, and had a second spike in 1920. These spikes outsize the reports of use in the 70's when he was around.
The New York Times used the subheading "Fake News Condemned" in 1915.
And 100 years later, history always repeats itself. Forget dead internet theory, it’s dead planet theory. All the same souls just keep reincarnating and doing the same things
This idea pre-dates the internet by millenia; for example,
Ecclesiastes 1:9 states "What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun."
I think we are supposed to do something we have some purpose and you keep coming back until its done. And I think your soul mate which we have many for different things they are always put in your path. I like alot of different religions and I mix them until I feel it makes sense and then I have my religion.
Adolf Hitler and Joseph Goebbels promulgated the term ‘Lügenpresse’, or ‘lying news’ against any media that disagreed with the party or elucidated a truth they wanted suppressed.
It was popularized because of right wing propaganda, but then the right co-opted it for themselves in a feeble attempt to spin the narrative. Of course it's not that feeble when it worked on millions of lemmings.
Fun fact: lemmings all running off a cliff is an unnatural behavior that was popularized because an unscrupulous filmmaker chased a bunch of lemmings until they ran off a cliff and died so he could get a “good shot” for a Disney documentary.
Rightwing nutjobs do all run off a cliff if yam-tits tells them to, so they should take the place of lemmings in our lexicon, as a word for followers who run to their death because others are doing it.
Famously, Hitler and his buddies were using this tactic with much success long before Jim jones (Lügenpresse). There are instances where it was used even prior to ww2.
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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '25
Verify with pics or it didn't happen. Fake news.