I did something like this years ago when I was a young Navy wife involved in a coffee clotch with other Navy wives. We would discuss current events and they all believed things that were not true because they read them in the newspaper or a magazine.

One day I spouted off a bunch of “facts” I made up on the spur of the moment and for almost an hour we discussed them with everyone believing them to be true because I had “quoted” them as being from newspapers and magazines. Then I told them the truth that all the “facts” were made up. The women were not happy but they got the point. LOL