The world is in confusion, but the main point of it is this.  Lies spread out recursively.  It's not just a lie when you say it.. there are many, many elements of confusion which *could* or would not have existed without a lie, and some of those lies can go back decades.  The only reservation I have from tracing it that long or longer is that a given element of confusion was probably the co-fusion of many different lies..

And by the way, lying about your opinion is a factual lie.