Click and share: The world’s ‘biggest lie’

How fast and can it get around the globe?

October 3, 2016

Helene Eloff 1 minute read

Let us call it the world’s biggest lie.

Why?

Because we want to see it crisscross the globe. Social media style.

Social media has us all taking part in an international conversation. Where inaccurate information is broadcasted, it crosses national borders on the internet superhighway in a flash. This post seeks aims to confirm how quickly one post can jet set in and out of seven continents.

Will it make its way to world’s 195 countries?

Let’s see.

If you read this, share it on social media and comment with your destination.

Now we need a lie.

So… How to find a lie that won’t offend someone somewhere.

I played it safe and went with the sentence we’ve all typed at some point.

So here goes: “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.”

Nope. That didn’t happen. Or rather: It is possible, but highly unlikely. (If you’ve seen this happen, email me at helene@lowvelder.co.za)

Foxes are lazy by nature and dogs tend to present symptoms of attention deficit disorder.

The author of the phrase is unknown. The earliest records of this pangram (a phrase containing all of the letters of the alphabet) date back to the late 1800’s.

It is used to test typists and keyboards.