Coming soon, I promise. Together we will make lying great again =\
During the month of April I will be encouraging the creation of factual nodes about lies and liars. If that sounds contradictory, read on. If you'd like to help judge, please let me know.
You may be familiar with past Lie Quests, dating back to the erroneously-named LieQuest 2013. For that quest i sought to have the best writing about lies, liars, pranks, japes and tall tales, encouraging what is known hereabouts as "making shit up". It didn' work out as I imagined.
This year I will be looking for quality factual writeups about liars and the lies they have told. When I say "factual", what you write should be verifiable, fact-checked if you will. I'd encourage you to list sources, though I shan't insist on it,even though I may ask for them privately. Past quests have permitted, even encouraged the entrants to make shit up and it's never quite worked the way i envisaged it. That is not the purpose this year. This year will be about fabulists and the lies they've told, be it in the political arena or elsewhere (i say politics because it's just such an easy target (from Bill "I did not have sex with that woman" Clinton to the seemingly fabricated life of George Santos). All politicians tell fibs, we expect that of them, but some do seem to have embraced the meme to excess. Corporations have been known to tell porkies too, on occasion, and that is also fair game for this quest. Is fact checking even noded? Fake news? They'd be good candidates, too. If you're in any doubt about a treatment or topic, message wertperch.