Back before the internet, you could pretty much just say you were trained to do something and people would have no choice to believe you. Why pay the tens of thousands of dollars to actually go to Stanford when you can just tell people you’re a Stanford, Cornell and Yale triple-grad? What are they going to do, call the school?

Now, however, you can verify information pretty easily, and that fact is causing a wave of chaos in the Spanish government.

It began when conservative candidate Noelia Núñez admitted that she hadn’t actually completed a double degree in law and public administration, an admission that caused her to resign.

This set off a series of “Oh no” moments across the government, as a bunch of politicians suddenly realized that they might get called out for this, too. Consequently, numerous other politicians announced that they, too, had lied about their qualifications.

For example, Ana Millán downgraded her degree in political science to a diploma in public administration. Ignacio Higuera admitted that he didn’t actually have a degree in marketing, as his university didn’t offer it at that time. José María Ángel also confessed his degree was fake.

This is just a sample of the many, many politicians who have suddenly come out and said that, whoops, they were lying about everything. Trust me, I would know — I’m the Prime Minister! What are you going to do, accuse me of lying about it?