By Futurist Thomas Frey
When We Stopped Caring What Was Real
By 2035, historians will mark 2025 as the year society collectively hit the wall—the moment when truth became so expensive to verify and lies became so cheap to produce that people simply gave up trying to tell them apart.
They’ll call it “Truth Fatigue”: that weary collective sigh when endless debunkings, deepfake floods, and contradictory “facts” left people too drained to care about what’s real anymore. It wasn’t just information overload. It was the exhaustion of constantly re-verifying reality in a world where seeing wasn’t believing, and every institution had skin in the game of narrative control.
Looking back from 2035, with AI-driven verification, massive-scale data cross-referencing, and real-time simulation having stripped away many comforting narratives, certain lies will stand out as particularly egregious—not because they were uniquely deceptive, but because AI exposed them so decisively.
Here are the big lies of 2025 that shaped the decade of exhaustion that followed.
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