

The history of humanity is rich in abundance of inaccurate information that has been circulated from generation to generation, information that has been recorded in history books, and taught in schools around the globe. Most of the Mandela Effect cases are attributed to memory errors and deep social misinformation passing on from individual to individual without checking facts. Take the example of simulations of the 1997 Princess Diana of Wales car crash that are regularly mistaken for real footage. To make matters worse, the Internet and social media contribute to reinforce any information transmitted throughout the network channels. This information, part of a shared reality may become dangerous in such case when the circulated information is false. This collective reality circulates information among different groups. Mandela Effect and Collective realityįrequently reported errors made by a number of individuals are part of the collective reality. Since then, all similar collective memory has been called the Mandela Effect. Some people even claimed they remembered clips of Mandela's funeral on TV. In reality, the South African leader was actually freed in 1990 and passed away much later on December 5, 2013.

Back then, countless people on the Internet falsely remembered that Nelson Mandela was dead and that he had died in prison during the 1980s. Collective misremembering of common events or details were first recorded in 2010.
