What is the biggest lie you’ve seen on Quora?
Ugh, there are so many good contenders here.
Garrett Murphy’s got the right idea though.
There are many lying answers on this site, but the biggest lies are the profiles that sometimes invent entire life stories or at least lie about crucial things.
Sometimes, the people who make this actually manage to get a decently large following for themselves (I have yet to find any massively popular quoran whose profile I can confidently say is fake).
I am still not mentioning names for obvious reasons, but here goes:
There’s this “woman” whose profile picture is of a very attractive attractive young girl, that she claims is her sister and that they look basically the same. It rung off some bells to me, but I couldn’t get the pic in the right format to do a classic reverse search. Wanna know something interesting about quorans though? Google their names, go to the image section in the results, and you will find their profile picture among the first ones if they are at least moderately famous.
That’s what I did, and I didn’t even have to do anything more. Only looking at the images Google recommended as similar I could find out that pic belongs to a woman who won the teen division of Miss Kentucky almost a decade and a half ago.
Now who uses a decade old pic of their sister (that can coincidencically be easily found on the internet) as a profile pic.
There’s this guy with a pretty unusual name who posts a lot of answers about geniuses, theology and genius quotes about theology.
He seems like an okay guy, but for someone fancying himself a seeker of truth, he uses a lot of quotes that weren’t actually said or takes actual quotes out of context.
That’s no big deal, but he is also claiming that he has published a pamphlet that managed to garner a cult like following in academia-apparently he was praised by teachers of philosphy and theology from some of the best universities in the world.
Of course, from all I could find, this pamphlet does not actually exist, or at least I couldn’t find any proof of it’s existence.
Still, for a man who recommends himself as a master of his subject, the pieces of wisdom he allegedly shares to the world are mostly quotes and stories that have circulated on the internet for years now. Literally anybody could write all of them after a basic Google search for deep quotes or something.
Lastly, there’s this user that got a pretty big boom and is currently in the process of gaining views in the millions.
This person’s entire mojo is defending communism, and not only that, but praising the regimes of people like Stallin, Mao Zedong and the Kim family. By his account, these people never, ever did anything wrong and all claims of their crimes against hummanity are propaganda or something.
As one would expect, their answers are pretty much one big string of dubious explanations, arguing semantics, justification of things like internment camps, untrustworthy obscure sources and plain falsities.
I don’t know if they truly lie about who they are or anything, but for a practicing lawyer, I don’t see any law expertise.
I’m including them here simply because there’s too many things that are not true in their answers.
Honestly, I don’t think you can ever know who is who here. I’m giving everybody the benefit of the doubt, but remember. You really never know.
