The Mandela Effect

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The Mandela effect is this idea that I have a memory of something happening. And the memory doesn't match what most people say is true, he says. If enough people misremember it in the same way and they find each other on social media, they become convinced that our memory of what happened was right.

In an era in which we have more information available to us than ever before, when claims of “fake news” might themselves be, in fact, fake news, Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris, authors of The Invisible Gorilla, are back to offer us a vital tool to not only inoculate ourselves against getting infected by misinformation but prevent us from spreading it to others, a new book titled Nobody's Fool.

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