Pushing back against falsehood is not the same thing as being the source of that falsehood.
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You do not have a right to spread falsehood after falsehood that harms society on a private company's network.
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Virtually whenever he finds it more convenient to tell a falsehood than to tell a truth, he chooses the falsehood.
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Ocasio-Cortez called Trump's vow to build the wall a "campaign fantasy" and said he told "falsehood after falsehood" in his address.
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"In the actual address, there was falsehood after falsehood," Ocasio-Cortez said, "and we have to make sure we get our facts straight."
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To utter falsehood after falsehood, directly or through a spokesman, is to foster the disorientation that makes crowds susceptible to the delusions of strongmen.
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"I was surprised by the absolute avalanche of falsehoods I find it almost unimaginable that someone can stand and just tell a falsehood after a falsehood."
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" 'Firehose of falsehood' A third study by the Rand Corporation and George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs delves even further into what it labels Russia's "firehose of falsehood.
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"If they withdraw or invalidate his diploma or title, obviously that would mean falsehood ... he would be removed if it's falsehood," said Francisco Tavara, the president of Peru's National Jury of Elections.
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If you lie, you have to think up a falsehood.
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It's a total falsehood -- there is no honor in killing.
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" "He is unable or unwilling to separate truth from falsehood.
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It is not the hatred of falsehood which inspires you.
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But simply repeating a documented falsehood doesn't make it true.
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It's the only logical means to separate truth from falsehood.
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Major historical events do not escape Trump's penchant for falsehood.
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On Monday, Holt bluntly called Trump out for the falsehood.
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To say "they couldn't keep up here" is a falsehood.
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Every day the distinction between truth and falsehood is undermined.
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Internet trolls simply overwhelm the system with swarms of falsehood.
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And using this falsehood to justify our actions is dangerous.
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The White House is knowingly allowing Scavino's falsehood to stand.
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This was a blatant falsehood with no basis in reality.
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At least Mr. Trump's presidency will rip that falsehood open.
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But in all categories, falsehood reigned as the king of virality.
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Mr Klingemann's experiment foreshadows a new battlefield between falsehood and veracity.
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Contemporary politicians have helped perpetuate the "stealing from Social Security" falsehood.
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The East Wing dismissed the obvious falsehood, chastising those pursuing it.
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And hope, like falsehood, springs eternal in the New Democratic breast.
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So why do so many people continue to believe this falsehood?
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"Believe me" is part guarantee and part buttress to a falsehood.
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Trump's claim of having 'finished' the birther fight is a falsehood.
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This is a falsehood that needs to be turned upside down.
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But the Times did inadvertently pass along a long-debunked falsehood.
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It seemed as if people who were ideologically inclined to believe a given falsehood worked so hard to come up with reasons that the correction was wrong that they came to believe the falsehood even more strongly.
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But truth is always slower than falsehood, because truth catches the facts.
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That's basically one falsehood every 169 words, or 1.16 falsehoods every minute.
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Some 70 percent consider it a falsehood, according to the Evening Standard.
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It includes concerted efforts to blur the distinction between fact and falsehood.
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"To call the Russia matter a 'hoax' ... is a falsehood," Flake said.
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But the narrative of Flynn going rogue was apparently just another falsehood.
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He also blasts Trump's record of exaggeration, falsehood, misstatement and conspiratorial thinking.
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But in telling a falsehood, he seemed to convey a larger truth.
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Trump's latest impeachment falsehood Trump was impeached by the House of Representatives.
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But live television can be a safe harbor for falsehood and deflection.
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The Star listed each reported falsehood with the relevant quote and date.
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Choosing the right term — is it a lie, a misstatement, a falsehood?
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Orange, san-serif dates turn each falsehood into bricks in a vast wall.
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The real falsehood is his claim that he is responsible for that success.
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That's not merely a minor misinterpretation of the law; it's a blatant falsehood.
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"Twitter is fulfilling its responsibility to avoid becoming a cesspool of falsehood," Sen.
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"Twitter is fulfilling its responsibility to avoid becoming a cesspool of falsehood," Sen.
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"You're saying it's a falsehood," she told "Meet the Press" host Chuck Todd.
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A few calls to the offices of the living presidents revealed the falsehood.
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She says there are "streets for Jews only," which is a categorical falsehood.
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"He is unable or unwilling to separate truth from falsehood," the letter says.
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Clinton's shift to opposing the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal was a falsehood.
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But her supporters are now using this episode to paint a broader falsehood.
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"Harbor of Dieppe" was "a specimen … of mingled truth and falsehood," one stated.
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It was that falsehood that Mr. Cohen sought to protect by lying himself.
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The falsehood haunted Biden for a week until he finally came clean Friday.
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But the result is an alarming level of falsehood even by Trump standards.
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There is not a single knowledgeable American negotiator who would support this falsehood.
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Or even that he continued to double and triple down on the falsehood.
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This falsehood about white guilt is a toxic outcome of white racial illiteracy.
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In that case, the press lacks an easy term for this kind of falsehood.
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Each day will bring a new outrage, a new falsehood, and a new low.
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Trump's central role in pushing the falsehood put her family at risk, she writes.
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On it went — one trivial act after another building up an edifice of falsehood.
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But we bet you've never heard (or told) a falsehood quite like this one.
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The website PolitiFact rated the claim "Pants on Fire," denoting the most egregious falsehood.
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Indeed, for an intelligence officer, Flynn seems to have trouble distinguishing truth from falsehood.
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Meanwhile, in the days since Trump's announcement, he's tweeted out one falsehood after another.
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Mr. Trump persists in the falsehood that tariffs are paid by America's trading partners.
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Shouldn't I use every means in my power to stop you from spreading falsehood?
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Claiming that the president has unilateral authority absent an attack is a convenient falsehood.
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Pete Buttigieg: To me, this is the core falsehood of Make America Great Again.
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" This is the principle of explosion, or ex falso quodlibet: "from falsehood, anything (follows).
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Creating a knowledgeable public requires at least some workable signals that distinguish truth from falsehood.
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Real human life is at stake, and information channels are clotted with hysteria and falsehood.
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There is no such thing as harmless disinformation; trusting in falsehood can have dire consequences.
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The RAND Corporation, a think-tank, calls this integrated, purposeful system a "firehose of falsehood".
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Of course, there are specks of truth and falsehood on all sides of the argument.
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Popov, for his part, is determined to point out every alleged falsehood in Google's complaint.
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Among the most egregious is the falsehood that the U.S. has a "mass incarceration" problem.
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You're saying it's a falsehood...Sean Spicer, our press secretary, gave alternative facts to that.
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Senator Rubio argues that these programs are heading toward "insolvency" or "going bankrupt" — another falsehood.
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She writes that Trump's central role in pushing the falsehood put her family at risk.
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The falsehood was the description of the purpose rather than the content of the meeting.
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Journalists are uniquely qualified to perform that vital role of discovering truth and combating falsehood.
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Hannity started with the falsehood that Trump had opposed the Iraq War from the beginning.
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This falsehood obscures the cyclical nature of such North Korean off-again on-again activities.
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Almost every promise made eight years ago about ObamaCare turned out to be a falsehood.
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"To recognize this falsehood is erroneous and terribly wrong," she said, according to the reports.
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It happens that the claim of being a survivor was merely Marco's most egregious falsehood.
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You say a falsehood over and over and it takes on the shape of reality.
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Labeling a column as opinion is not a free pass to push a potential falsehood.
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He maligned a black congresswoman, Frederica S. Wilson, with a falsehood, and declined to apologize.
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Corrupting is a presidency dedicated to the blurring of the line between truth and falsehood.
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The deepest form of rot is the erosion of the distinction between truth and falsehood.
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The distinctions between fact and fiction, truth and falsehood seem quaint and impossible to parse.
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MORE, the falsehood that launched his political career and endeared him to the radical right.
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To print such a falsehood on the front page of a major newspaper is outrageous.
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The law also gives the power to decide truth and falsehood to the state elections commission.
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If only the constructed falsehood of white supremacy in the US were as easy to remove.
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Using a tried and true strategy, the phony poll, opponents of McCain spread a complete falsehood.
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For example, we can't yet teach artificial intelligence systems how to discern between truth and falsehood.
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And then they will accuse Kavanaugh of believing that special counsels are illegitimate—yet another falsehood.
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The president tweeted that falsehood on Thursday morning, as Hurricane Florence barreled toward the Carolina coast.
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There's so much contradiction and falsehood in one place that it seems foolish to analyze it.
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This is a conscious falsehood being uttered by a key voice atop the United States government.
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Why do you mix the truth with falsehood, and conceal the truth while you know [it]?
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So she acknowledged pushing a falsehood to Mueller's team, but said it was just an accident.
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Permitting falsehood in political advertising would work if we had a model democracy, but we don't.
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In this business, falsehood, conspiracy, and outrage simply sell better than truth, reason and sober debate.
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They want you to forget that freedom withers when the distinction between truth and falsehood dies.
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They have demonstrated that facts still matter and that truth has some inherent advantages over falsehood.
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Traders, though, harnessed the then-commonly accepted falsehood — by Chinese, Greeks, and Romans — that unicorns existed.
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Fox News' main Twitter account, with its 17 million followers, chose not to highlight the total falsehood.
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Mr Putin's regime, rather like its Soviet predecessor, is built on falsehood and the threat of violence.
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They determined which were myths and then ranked them by degree of falsehood and importance to health.
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The Washington Post, like the Wall Street Journal, has opted for words like "false" or "falsehood" instead.
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Walters instructs me to lie about my chosen number, to allow the system to detect my falsehood.
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Because gossip may start based upon a little truth and it usually grows into a big falsehood.
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It also promotes the falsehood that an autism diagnosis nearly always comes pre-packaged with extreme giftedness.
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THE DEATH OF TRUTH Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump By Michiko Kakutani 208 pp.
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First, in order to roll back democratic checks, despots must blur the lines between truth and falsehood.
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In Clinton's case, the falsehood reinforced existing claims that she had a habitual problem with the truth.
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"They succeeded in teaching me one lesson: the falsehood of the North Korean legal system," he said.
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He must contradict the Jihadist narrative–that their plight is a religious one–not bolster this falsehood.
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In the 1980s, the KGB used this technique to spread the falsehood that the CIA created AIDS.
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They say his presidency is in fact most notable for a culture of corruption, falsehood and demagoguery.
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Claiming not to know Andrew was not the only falsehood Trump said at his Tuesday press conference.
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Trump repeats falsehood that Democrats are to blame for forced family separations at the US-Mexico border
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The network is just one stream of what RAND Corporation, a think-tank, calls Russia's "firehose of falsehood".
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And then Mr Johnson's final falsehood will be exposed: that his deal means Brexit is done and dusted.
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The comedienne then tweeted out the right-wing falsehood that Soros, who is jewish, is a Nazi sympathizer.
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The problem for Facebook is that the company already has entered the thicket of regulating truth and falsehood.
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But perhaps more dangerous than his falsehood is his conflation of two separate issues: water management and wildfires.
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This falsehood so profoundly misrepresents the nature of innovation and capitalism that it's hard to take them seriously.
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It's impossible to chase down every falsehood Trump has birthed—that 3,000 number is impressive, in a way.
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The cast and crew have been candid about the reality and falsehood, and even teased a possible movie.
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Two of the events perpetuated the very canard that King himself debunked -- the falsehood that Zionism is racism.
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To the contrary, it was an intentional and calculated falsehood to deceive the Congress and the American people.
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The goal, he said, would be to deepen American divisions and blur the line between truth and falsehood.
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The falsehood had gone viral before Canadian authorities became aware of it and were able to disprove it.
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The left thinks it's likely an unimportant exaggeration or even a falsehood that will damage the Mueller investigation.
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This reflects his instinct for the jugular: Once the distinction between truth and falsehood disappears, anything is possible.
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But psychologically, it may make the falsehood seem closer to the truth and thus less unethical to tell.
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To the contrary: The falsehood-filled tweets and televised tirades are gradually eroding Americans' shared sense of reality.
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When we allow lies, misrepresentations and deception to go unchallenged, we become complicit in trading reality for falsehood.
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The falsehoods they offer are crafted through the careful omission of fact rather than the inclusion of falsehood.
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When these fearless publications catch some Trump flunky in a brazen whopper, they want us to know, they will boldly break the decades-long precedent of treating factual distortions from on high with euphemisms like "controversial" or "disputed," and bravely call an official falsehood a falsehood, a Trump lie a lie.
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Actor Ron Perlman, known for his work in "Hellboy" and "Sons of Anarchy," also spread the falsehood on Twitter .
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But on some level, there's an element of falsehood to all performances that aren't influenced by actual life experience.
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According to People, who has the exclusive clip, she's there to hash out the past — THIS IS A FALSEHOOD!
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While Varner was fully gulled by Zeke's lie that Tai was the target, Sandra immediately saw through the falsehood.
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The prosecutors have charged 11 people, including several lay people, with misappropriation, money laundering, "ideological falsehood" and criminal association.
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Because their truth or falsehood doesn't relate to anything else, has no practical or epistemological implications, they are inert.
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Like most politicians, Reagan could exaggerate to make a point, but he hated to be caught telling a falsehood.
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It will do so by prioritizing articles for fact-checking by using falsehood prediction scores generated through machine learning.
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Proving that someone committed perjury means overcoming a high hurdle: that the person knowingly told a falsehood under oath.
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It is a near weekly occurrence during the Trump presidency; everyone sees the falsehood while few see the correction.
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And, before her shame at this transparent falsehood has evaporated, the boy coolly bids her farewell and turns away.
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The idea that the FCC is now engaging in witch hunts of anti-Trump jokesters is a convenient falsehood.
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Blurring that line between fact and falsehood dilutes critiques and ensures that citizens question the nature of truth itself.
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But he instantly concocted a new falsehood, insisting that his opponent Hillary Clinton, not he, initiated the birther conspiracy.
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PolitiFact awarded Mr. Obama its Lie of the Year, its annual selection of the most egregious falsehood, in 2013.
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Even Trump's falsehood about 3 million fraudulent votes being cast in the election went largely unchallenged by congressional Republicans.
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This novelty is problematic in the Twitter realm because humans everywhere are already poor at discerning between truth and falsehood.
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Some might be convinced of the falsehood that if someone has more wealth it follows that others necessarily have less.
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"Falsehood diffused significantly farther, faster, deeper, and more broadly than the truth in all categories of information," the researchers reported.
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"You're saying it's a falsehood, and they're giving- Sean Spicer, our press secretary, gave alternative facts to that," she said.
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But even if Trump later drops a claim, it's likely some of his supporters will continue believing the initial falsehood.
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Another falsehood in the book is that Trump did not know who former House Speaker John Boehner was, Sanders added.
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There is so much noise, so much nonsense, that it's increasingly hard to distinguish fact from fiction, truth from falsehood.
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For decades, in Trump's business dealings, he never paid a price for his salesman's hype, which repeatedly edged into falsehood.
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The Day of the Double Falsehood is a very clear, very dramatic example of Trump's tendency to, um, speak fictionally.
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Second, Facebook is now using machine learning to look at newly published articles and scan them for signs of falsehood.
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The cross "asserts the truth of one religion and, implicitly but necessarily, the falsehood of all other religions," he said.
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He repeats, more than 80 times, the falsehood that his administration passed the biggest tax cut in United States history.
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One was Photoshopped tearing up the Constitution — a falsehood — and criticized for wearing a flag that represented her Cuban heritage.
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"It's disturbing to see the pattern from the Cruz campaign, a consistent pattern of personal destruction rooted in falsehood," Rep.
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Perhaps worse, the department can divide Americans by giving credence to the falsehood that colleges favor some races over others.
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"Bob Mueller will have to make the decision about whether that rises to the level of deliberate falsehood," Schiff said.
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They bring about a reality, or seek to, but they are not producing a falsehood by virtue of their performativity.
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This means respect for the rules of evidence, rigorous skepticism and the honoring of the distinction between truth and falsehood.
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Despite how easily disproven this falsehood is, it has not stopped many from touting the false narrative that he is.
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To be very clear, to call the Russia matter a "hoax" -- as the president has many times -- is a falsehood.
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To be very clear, to call the Russia matter a "hoax" – as the president has many times – is a falsehood.
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In a countersuit against Vinh, the pain clinics called his allegations a "falsehood" to justify violation of his employment contract.
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But the media's overuse of "lie" indicates that journalists gloss all too easily over the fine distinction between "lie" and "falsehood".
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But this article racked up nearly 50,000 views and more than 700 comments — the vast majority seemingly unaware of its falsehood.
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"You're saying it's a falsehood and Sean Spicer, our press secretary, gave alternative facts to that," she told NBC's Chuck Todd.
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The first falsehood, on the crowd size, is no big deal in the grand scheme of things, beyond undermining Spicer's credibility.
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The SVC said this was a complete falsehood, and that the naming of the new species is governed by strict rules.
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A study published in Science earlier this year found that falsehood spread online with an ease that real news stories don't.
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" Infringing articles won't be edited, instead "the facts" will be added so that "the facts can travel together with the falsehood.
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After the falsehood spread, the editor-in-chief of the Wall Street Journal, Matt Murray, tweeted a warning about unsourced claims.
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But of course, what looks like a shade of gray to one person might look like a clear falsehood to others.
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How Crick would have been dismayed by the falsehood and partisanship on display in this week's Senate committee hearings in Washington.
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Individual members lack a method to sort and filter signal from noise or trusted credible knowledge from malicious falsehood and hype.
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" Milton said "Let [Truth] and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter?
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Bob Corker criticized President Donald Trump for tweeting things "that are not true," the president tweeted out another falsehood — about Corker.
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His falsehood about talking to past presidents who told him they supported the construction of the wall is a good example.
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That treats falsehood like a hockey puck being moved up and down the ice, and forces each candidate into goalie pads.
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Editorial This year, the adage that "falsehood flies and the truth comes limping after it" doesn't begin to describe the problem.
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He sent the VP out in public with a falsehood, and we know that the VP is not happy about this.
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It doesn't shift their opinion to the more truthful or factual, but instead it actually reinforces their belief in the falsehood.
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Spicer was then tasked with repeating that astounding falsehood to reporters — something for which he and the administration were quickly pilloried.
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Are you concerned about a president who has perpetuated the falsehood that vaccines cause autism and who consorts with vaccine deniers?
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The assertion fed the falsehood that Clinton supporters were operating a child sex ring out of a Washington-based pizza parlor.
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It rated her prediction as not true or false but as a "mixture" containing significant elements of both truth and falsehood.
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The notion that the business was violent, he said, was a falsehood being pushed by the news media and the police.
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In each instance, rather than insisting the falsehood was true, Ms. Sanders and Ms. Conway implied it could have been true.
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But half the participants were first invited to imagine how the falsehood could have been true if circumstances had been different.
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He said campaigns must decide when the costs of ignoring a falsehood outweighed drawing additional attention to it by speaking out.
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Your one consolation, and ours, is that your dishonesty is a mere grain of sand on the great mountain of falsehood.
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If you oppose him politically, then everything you do will be cast as in service of a lie or a falsehood.
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Over the past century, scientists have debunked the polygraph, proving again and again that the test can't reliably distinguish truth from falsehood.
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People have been deceived by a myth that a metal box in the hands of an investigator can detect truth or falsehood.
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" Mother: "Well, everybody tells their child this in the knowledge that it will one day emerge as a world-shattering falsehood, Timmy.
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There's a difference: Lying involves conscious deception, whereas bullshitting is a more insidious attempt to blur the lines between truth and falsehood.
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Yet we wish, somehow, to sort this kind of untruth from the other, darker kind of falsehood that blemishes our public life.
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Pressley called TPS a "falsehood," saying there is nothing temporary about it because its recipients have contributed to the country for decades.
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To be very clear, to call the Russian matter a hoax as the president has done so many times is a falsehood.
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Forces retook the mosque on Thursday, prompting Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi to declare an end to the group's "state of falsehood".
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Even the most blatant falsehood tends to be reported with headlines about how "Democrats say" it's false, not that it's actually false.
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"Most of their narratives are outright falsehood and a calculated attempt to whip up sentiments and mislead unsuspecting Nigerians," the statement said.
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Sometimes The Post can be too fastidious, citing differences of opinion as evidence of falsehood, so let's cut the tally by half.
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The falsehood-filled funeral staged by Nico's family leads to a wild, impromptu wake put on by his friends, which leads to.
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How do we measure these testimonies when all of cognitive science tells us that human beings are really bad at spotting falsehood?
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And for years, he was the most vocal purveyor of the falsehood that President Barack Obama was born outside the United States.
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The Trump Koi pond tweets represent the worst of social media: Rapid spreading of a total falsehood, and about an irrelevant topic.
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To win the case, Unsworth must prove Musk was negligent in publishing a falsehood that clearly identified him and caused him harm.
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The problem is not merely that we are being fed a falsehood here, a lie there, though that would be problem enough.
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We tend to talk about performance as though it's the definition of falsehood when, at its best, it's the height of truth.
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A deception-free internet is a nostalgia-steeped illusion; falsehood has been a part of the digital world practically since its inception.
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Some people believe the falsehood that if we talk about suicide, it will plant the idea in the minds of vulnerable people.
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This isn't a call to divert attention, or a protest against other minorities "that have it better," a falsehood I'm cautious to avoid.
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I walk the streets of NY and see intense competition, falsehood, posturing, and ridiculousness, but those usually aren't the people getting things done.
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Another, much larger set of problems arise from the falsehood, hate and lies that go viral on social media, and their electoral consequences.
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But the myth that climate science is up for debate isn't the biggest or most dangerous falsehood that people buy into, Hayhoe says.
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We're really being conscientious that the social norm that women don't get along is a falsehood, that now we are starting to erase.
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It states that, by "mixing truth with falsehood in the name of the Holy Prophet", the original complaint could be seen as blasphemous.
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" McCain then challenged listeners to recall that "we stand for truth against falsehood, freedom against tyranny, right against injustice, [and] hope against despair.
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Whoever first started this falsehood misread a St. Lucie election board document showing that 249,095 "cards" were cast, and registered voters totaled 175,554.
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He repeated the falsehood that United States Steel is opening "seven plants" to a crowd of supporters in Pennsylvania; it has announced none.
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"A taradiddle is by definition a petty lie, a little falsehood or trifling told often to amuse or embellish a story," he said.
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To win his lawsuit, Unsworth needs to show Musk was negligent in publishing a falsehood that clearly identified him and caused him harm.
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But this kind of falsehood is much easier to spread when other figures in the I.D.W. are promiscuous about whom they'll associate with.
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It has also made clear that there is no automatic political cost to crime or falsehood if it furthers the hegemonic political narrative.
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When judging a falsehood that maligns a favored politician, we ask, "Was it true?" and then condemn it if the answer is no.
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I do not believe these people know this falsehood is part of an anti-Semitic lie about how Jews secretly control world events.
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Kessler, together with Washington Post staff reporter Michelle Lee, commonly grades statements from one to four "Pinocchios" — four being the most egregious falsehood.
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President Trump's emergency declaration for a border wall is based on an obvious falsehood: There is no emergency at the U.S.-Mexico border.
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You'd think once a myth or falsehood was completely debunked by Team Snopes, you would never see that bit of fake news ever again.
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" Washington Post Fact Checker's Glenn Kessler said in his analysis of the op-ed that "almost every sentence contained a misleading statement or falsehood.
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This month, a Texas appeals court ruled 6 to 3 that new evidence about the prosecutor's apparent falsehood did not require a new sentencing.
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That, in part, is what makes Trump's newest falsehood about Obama and other presidents not calling the families of America's war dead so troubling.
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He confused unity with totalitarianism, truth with falsehood, Dreamers with born and raised American citizens, and, of course, neglected to mention the Russia investigation.
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The rapidity with which falsity travels has been proverbial for centuries: "Falsehood flies, and the Truth comes limping after it," wrote Swift in 1710.
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In fact, people spreading false news… "Falsehood diffused farther and faster than the truth despite these differences, not because of them," the researchers write.
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" Albeit, it's difficult to read his plan for action without thinking of the old adage that "falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it.
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You might say, "Hey, c'mon, that's obviously fake," but some people shared it, wanting to believe it, and that spread a falsehood to others.
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In fact, I was talking to past presidents and they told me [falsehood that ex-presidents told Trump they should have built the wall].
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She has uncritically peddled that falsehood in countless interviews on national television and has capitalized off of it, by starting the group Fair Fight.
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We need to get rid of the offensive falsehood that black people don't care about crime, and help create the reforms they've long demanded.
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"The assumption that the police are there to keep people like those who are participating in those protests safe is a falsehood," Williams said.
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" It added, "Anyone who claims that Prop C is a matter of being 'for the homeless or against them' is selling a facile falsehood.
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So conservatives, led by President Trump, have moved on to people like us, coming up with one falsehood after another to diminish our humanity.
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To win his lawsuit, Unsworth needs to show that Musk was negligent in publishing a falsehood that clearly identified him and caused him harm.
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To win his lawsuit, Unsworth needs to show that Musk was negligent in publishing a falsehood that clearly identified him and caused him harm.
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" That "wide leeway" allowed Trump to produce a column in which, according to Kessler, "almost every sentence contained a misleading statement or a falsehood.
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Journalist Erin Gloria Ryan says that this conflation is also "falsehood" used by U.S. conservatives in arguments against the use of the morning after pill.
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Right-wing conspiracy theorists have had something of an obsession with Ginsburg's health in recent months, touting the outlandish falsehood that she is actually dead.
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G is a totally different letter than M, and what's more, he claimed the congressman is a junior — a falsehood, according to the congressman's campaign.
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In response to CNN's Jim Acosta, who cited the recent string of record warm years, Pruitt repeated the falsehood that global temperatures are remaining flat.
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"I am not going to get out saying a falsehood to the parole commission in order for them to give me a break," he says.
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We have to get over the philosophical impulse to seize sentences and sweat them, inquisition-style, until they confirm their truth or confess their falsehood.
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In sharing her story so generously, McDonald dispels this obvious falsehood and reminds us that everyone is equally vulnerable, and all of us need allies.
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However, a recent study shows the falsehood behind that claim: 75 percent of women who had an abortion said they were pressured to do so.
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Following both Peter Pronovost and Atul Gawande, we call for a "falsehood checklist manifesto" to highlight the major forms of lies in health care today.
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His commitment to "birtherism" sought to undermine the legitimacy of the country's first black president, and his renunciation of it included a new falsehood: Mrs.
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This is not to suggest that Gandhi, a bamboo staff in hand, stands at the mouth of the dark cave where all falsehood is stored.
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I can just imagine the beads of sweat forming on the philtrum above his upper lip as his thumbs tap this falsehood on this phone.
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" Arguing that Mr. Zucker had reduced CNN's news operation to a kind of sports coverage, Ms. Bee said, "There's no truth or falsehood in sports.
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Lieutenant Colonel Joe Kibet, spokesman for the African Union's AMISOM force, dismissed al Shabaab's toll as a "falsehood" but did not give a casualty figure.
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You start a rumor and watch as the falsehood wafts on a gentle breeze, he sings, passing into people's ears, and then out their mouths.
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Mr. Trump also repeated a falsehood he has spread before: that The New York Times apologized to its readers after the election for its coverage.
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But when a falsehood resonated with people's politics, asking them to imagine counterfactual situations in which it could have been true softened their moral judgments.
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His legal team's retelling of events was certainly generous, but if there had been a truly egregious falsehood on the stand, I hadn't heard it.
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I attempted to claim a piece of my American dream through homeownership, and quickly I saw how much of a falsehood that dream could be.
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Trump grasped that America is suffering from an epistemological weakness as well as economic ones: The line between truth and falsehood is becoming dangerously blurred.
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Hunt hit back saying that Hawking, author of the bestselling book 'A Brief History of Time', was wrong and that his criticism was a "pernicious falsehood".
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And in a 24-second news-cycle, business leaders need constant access to hyper-relevant information so that they're making decisions based on fact, not falsehood.
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A less consequential falsehood is that technology means children do not need to learn facts or learn from a teacher—instead they can just use Google.
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Now, researchers from two independent groups have confirmed that Putin's minions wielded a complex misinformation apparatus to unleash a "firehose of falsehood" on the American public.
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So why should Trump give prosecutors an opportunity to trap him into uttering a falsehood in an environment where doing so can be a criminal act?
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There has been much debate in the news media about how do you know when a Trump lie is a lie and not just a falsehood.
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For the second time in less than a month, Jake Tapper has used a CNN segment to clear up an unsubstantiated "falsehood" lobbed by Donald Trump.
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"I have no idea why anyone would spread an obvious falsehood that has absolutely no basis in science or a single study with data," Fitzsimmons said.
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And why did the Vice President — the man Flynn sent out on national TV with a categorical falsehood — have to get his information from a newspaper?
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We have accepted these erosions of our freedoms because we've come to believe a falsehood, that that's the only way to show proper respect for authority.
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Such a determination as to what is sufficiently similar requires nuanced analyses that are exceedingly difficult — after all, what is the line between falsehood and parody?
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In the United States, a patchwork of state-level restrictions perpetuate the falsehood that medication abortion must be taken in a clinical setting to be safe.
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But the newsrooms covering the investigation most closely, including The Times and The Washington Post, generally did an excellent job distinguishing among fact, uncertainty and falsehood.
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Tom Blanton, the director of the National Security Archive, said the national security argument was "a falsehood" because the Obama-era policy already made such exceptions.
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The recent controversy about falsehood in online ads was triggered by complaints about false statements in ads by President Trump's campaign attacking Democratic candidate Joe Biden.
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Klobuchar forcefully rebutted an assertion from a moderator that she voted to confirm most of President Donald Trump's judicial nominations, saying it was a falsehood spread online.
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The site allowed "more than 200 million active North American users to dwell in a fever swamp of misinformation and ridiculous falsehood," said Deadspin editor Alex Pareene.
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The only problem is that compiling unsubstantiated claims, misleading statements and one outright falsehood, the Trump campaign has produced an ad that is breathtaking in its dishonesty.
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"Almost every sentence contained a misleading statement or a falsehood," Glenn Kessler of The Washington Post's Fact Checker said in his analysis of the president's op-ed.
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When he spread the nonsense rumor that Barack Obama wasn't born in the US (a falsehood he didn't renounce until September), even then the stakes seemed low.
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Somewhere along the line, they bought into this fiction that one has to choose between the environment and business, which is just a complete falsehood and absurd.
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Mr. Trump and his supporters serve another function, too: They expose the falsehood of the seductive myth that with time and increased diversity, racism will inevitably evaporate.
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Gavin Newsom about a recent string of wildfires that forced thousands of people to evacuate their homes, repeating a falsehood about water diversion, according to Roll Call.
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In addition to speaking out about mental health and the falsehood of social media, Gomez previously donated proceeds from a concert in North Carolina to LGBTQ organizations.
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Facebook also allows campaigns to micro-target receptive groups with ads that opponents are unlikely to see and therefore cannot dispute, disarming the traditional defence against falsehood.
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I've seen cases in which the CEO or other senior official commits a fraud, presumably at a company's behest, exaggerating earnings or cooking up some other falsehood.
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And that Mr. Hogan, the character, is given to exaggeration and falsehood, which explains any contradictory statements he made about the tape and his knowledge of it.
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What rankled about Mr. Lehrer was his "cavalier attitude about truth and falsehood," in the words of the writer Charles Seife, who reviewed his work for Wired.
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Even for a president whose false statements have been constantly cited by fact-checkers, this was a stark private acknowledgment of what was a repeated public falsehood.
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An aspect of this pathology is that the subject often seems to believe that the falsehood or distortion is real as he or she is telling it.
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When challenged on the evident falsehood, Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary, seemed to argue that Mr. Trump's belief that something was true qualified as evidence.
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Arpaio campaigned for Trump in 2016 and investigated unfounded claims that Obama was not born in the United States, a falsehood that Trump also espoused for years.
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The ads, which began running widely on Thursday, start with a bold but obvious falsehood: That Facebook and its CEO Mark Zuckerberg have endorsed President Trump's reelection campaign.
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So, of course his team of lawyers went to the Senate not so much to defend him, but to continue his campaign of falsehood against his leading challenger.
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And all of us have a responsibility to refute the notion that groups like ISIL somehow represent Islam, because that is a falsehood that embraces the terrorist narrative.
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When following up even the most ludicrous falsehood with "believe me" is enough to get you elected president, you know you're facing a full-fledged war on truth.
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" Though Kelly declined to go into detail on Trump's reported falsehood, she adds, "It's very clear that Trump lied and Vladimir Putin puts the lie to Trump's claim.
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The only problem is that by compiling unsubstantiated claims, misleading statements and one outright falsehood, the Trump campaign has produced an ad that is breathtaking in its dishonesty.
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As Ezra Klein touched on recently, when Sean Spicer goes into the briefing room to tell a clear, demonstrable falsehood, he's employing a pretty effective, apparently intentional strategy.
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Using "bull" to mean a lie or falsehood can be traced back to the Old French word bole, which means "deception, trick, scheming, intrigue" according to the OED.
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" The jury did see a video of an interview police conducted with Pell in Rome in 2016 in which he labeled the charges against him a "deranged falsehood.
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Obama and his team spun this falsehood for years, hoping the American people would simply shrug over the waning of capitalism and embrace the old/new redistributionism. Forward!
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Mill seemed to believe that an open, free debate meant the truth would usually prevail, whereas under censorship, truth could end up being accidentally suppressed, along with falsehood.
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The President's strategy also relies on his capacity to maintain the misdirection and falsehood that he has concocted around the issue that has been parroted by conservative media.
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Combined with other signals like user reports, Facebook can use high falsehood prediction scores from the machine learning systems to prioritize articles in its queue for fact-checkers.
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Hume leads briskly to Darwin, then Nietzsche, then eugenics and fascism and existentialism and postmodernism and intersectionality, and here we are, kowtowing to the "knowing falsehood" of transgenderism.
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Not to sugarcoat it: The Sanders campaign has flat-out lied about things Biden said in 2018 about Social Security, and it has refused to admit the falsehood.
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By the Washington Post's latest careful accounting, Trump states a lie or falsehood eight times a day -- nearing 5,000 over the course of his 20 months in office.
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I tweeted a clarification about the falsehood to no avail: My social media accounts and my phone were inundated with WhatsApp messages urging others to gang-rape me.
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Because the Iranian regime controls its own media, it is able to leverage to their own needs the falsehood that many American casualties were inflicted in its attack.
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It upholds a tired falsehood that a rapper can't be smart, or that the way you speak or type has anything to do with one's intelligence at all.
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For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
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One manifestation of that legacy: a president who will never admit he uttered a falsehood and a Congress too often pursuing only a partisan version of the truth.
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" Saudi Arabia's Grand Mufti, the country's leading religious cleric, has condemned Twitter as "the source of all evil and devastation," which serves only to spread "lies and falsehood.
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I think that's fine and reasonable, but let's all start challenging the falsehood that there are strong reasons to believe that Social Security won't be there for future generations.
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When Obama, attempting to put a stop to the falsehood, released his "long-form" birth certificate from Hawaii in April 2011, Trump continued to claim it was somehow faked.
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In "Good People" an Israeli novelist, Nir Baram, asks what kind of people would choose to serve these empires of falsehood with their eyes open and their minds sharp.
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President Trump spoke with TIME Washington Bureau Chief Michael Scherer on March 22 for a cover story about the way he has handled truth and falsehood in his career.
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Still, when someone repeats an established falsehood so directly and shamelessly, it is hard to point it out without appearing so critical of the candidate as to be partisan.
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And Trump's rise to political celebrity came as he peddled the falsehood that the nation's first black president, Barack Obama, was born in Africa, not in the United States.
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She is a radical corporatist who will tell any falsehood — just like she did about her emails — to enrich her donors and sell out the working people of America.
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" Though Pierson initially claimed the jab was a falsehood, he later acknowledged that he lives "close to the district and I've been working in the district for many years.
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"It is a shameful falsehood, given the extremely low rates of voter fraud in the U.S., especially the kind of fraud targeted by Republican voter ID laws," he wrote.
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Fact-checking especially has been persistent and generally effective, even forcing the White House to drop a bald-faced falsehood about thousands of terrorists crossing the border, for example.
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A BuzzFeed investigation found that of the Facebook posts it examined from three major right-wing websites, 38 percent were either false or a mixture of truth and falsehood.
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Or the appalling falsehood, aggressively insinuated by Fox's Sean Hannity, that Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich was the victim of a political assassination in the summer of 2016.
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That, they said, supports their hypothesis that the new information allows people to update their understanding of events, justifying why they fell for the falsehood in the first place.
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I mean, the first thing that you do when you're attacked with a falsehood is not only deny it but go out and really make a case for it.
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One falsehood we're hearing frequently at the moment is that America is broke—that we can't afford a safety net for those people who cannot make sufficient money themselves.
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In denying that it has engaged in racial balancing at the expense of Asian-Americans, Harvard has put itself in the morally untenable position of affirming a brazen falsehood.
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This leads to a natural caution on the part of some journalists who cover the White House about calling a lie a lie, with phrases like "demonstrable falsehood" instead.
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"No, I love the people in Puerto Rico ... they had so much water they didn't know what to do with it," Trump said, repeating another falsehood before ending the interview.
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University education costs too much—much too much—and it creates a falsehood and a kind of evil weight around all the things I like and believe in about universities.
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Now we've learned of yet another parallel: A refusal to correct an obvious falsehood, even when the consequences of that refusal could be far more damaging than the original misstatement.
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Jones, the host of Infowars, has spread the falsehood that the shooting that killed 20 children and six adults — including Hockley's 6-year-old son, Dylan Hockley — was a hoax.
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Lest that above category of falsehood paint Trump as some kind of savvy, deceptive operator, let's remember that not all his falsehoods are carefully calculated—some are insane conspiratorial nonsense.
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" Co-author Jon Roozenbeek added: "We are hoping to create what you might call a general 'vaccine' against fake news, rather than trying to counter each specific conspiracy or falsehood.
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The China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) said late on Friday it had uncovered "major falsehood" in Kangmei's financial reports disclosed between 2016 and 2018, including suspected violations of securities law.
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Five years after I thought I had buried the falsehood about quick onion cooking, Google is dragging it out of its grave to send it shambling into unsuspecting users' kitchens.
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Although the polygraph cannot reliably detect truth or falsehood itself, its cultural reputation for omniscience can be used by an artful examiner to elicit confessions from nervous or suggestible subjects.
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But it does reveal the insidious premise of the meme: It uses a falsehood to convince people that veterans are being left behind while undeserving refugees take much-needed resources.
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He says that such patients are "almost uncanny in their ability to detect mixed motives, judgment, and falsehood," and so he redoubled his efforts to say only what he meant.
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" Calling the lawsuit "a politically motivated sham case," the campaign said the DNC is acting to move forward with the complaint "all in a doomed effort to prove a falsehood.
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Their "firehose of falsehood," as social scientists Christopher Paul and Miriam Matthews have called it, is a shameless willingness to pass on partial truths and outright fictions to create confusion.
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It's a very common falsehood—the idea that there's something about the singular vision of the filmmaker that means the writer cannot be anywhere near the set or the experience.
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She spun tales of rape and loss, things that had never happened, things that were so horrific the backlash would likely be huge if she ever admitted to their falsehood.
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"[H]is defamation claim is itself founded on a falsehood," the network wrote Monday in its motion, calling on the court to halt the proceedings or dismiss the case altogether.
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At first the implants succeeded, but in the end their falsehood fails her, and she is challenged to find her own identity and meaning in life, knowing she's a replicant.
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She was bold in her description of the lying, deception, self-deception, image-making and the attempt of those in power to destroy the very distinction between truth and falsehood.
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It was initially reported on social media, erroneously, that Brown was requiring its players to wear headgear — a falsehood that spread to virtually every corner of the N.C.A.A. coaching ranks.
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Her eyes are open to the world as it really is — or as she understands it, anyway — and she's determined to reject every falsehood programmed into it and into her.
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There are many things that concern me about the Trump presidency — in fact, few don't — but the frivolous blurring of truth and untruth, fact and falsehood, is the most grave.
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Trump might well have made an innocent slip rather than an intentional falsehood, but this was at least the sixth time he has cited an inaccurate percentage for these tariffs.
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The accusations took on such power that even Newt Gingrich signed on to the falsehood despite the fact that he had previously expressed bullish support for end-of-life planning.
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For the record, Trump stayed away from that particular falsehood on Monday night, according to Daniel Dale, but he repeated many other lies -- even about the size of his crowd.
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This falsehood has enabled more than one anti-Semite on the left to protest that they can't possibly be anti-Semitic because their political worldview rules out such a thing.
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On the one hand, many Americans cherish the idea that "70 is the new 723" — a rosy falsehood contradicted by any serious study of the age curve for major diseases.
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A university that values intellectual inquiry and respects the agency of its students should acknowledge and encourage the student's ability to distinguish right from wrong, truth from falsehood, fact from conspiracy.
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The annals of Trumpdown are simply littered with this kind of casual, fundamentally pointless falsehood: None of this is useful in moving the ball forward on any kind of policy goal.
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We seek to interrupt the seamless modernist lifestyle by tethering the line of falsehood and reality as reflected online by digital advertising, personal branding, corporate media, and most recently 'fake news.
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But right now there's something especially uncomfortable about watching a character based on the father of entertainment spectaculars praising exaggeration, falsehood, and ignorance for its pure pleasure value, reality be damned.
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The smoky eye is, above all, a blended look, so you don't want there to be any obvious demarcated lines between the various shades, or between the truth and outright falsehood.
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The report, which can be read here, is a hefty 135 pages of falsehood after distortion after half-truth aimed at sowing doubt on established climate science and the scientific method.
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The tweet was classic Trump -- getting ahead of bad news by using his press critics as a foil while fogging the line between truth and falsehood to evade serious political harm.
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The president has repeatedly touted the falsehood that he won the popular vote "if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally," a claim that has been disproven multiple times.
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" The claims Trump made were also widely debunked by various fact-checkers, including Politifact, and the Washington Post, which found that "almost every sentence contained a misleading statement or a falsehood.
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Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect.
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There's no shortage of misconceptions when it comes to credit cards and credit scores, including the falsehood that having more than a few cards will spell disaster for your credit score.
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"History records names, it remembers names — the names of those who stand by what is right and the names of those who speak falsehood," said Riad Malki, the Palestinian foreign minister.
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Last week, Mark Green, a physician in Tennessee, just elected to Congress, repeated the much-debunked falsehood that vaccines can cause autism (he later said that his comments had been "misconstrued").
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But huge falsehoods by major party figures – where by falsehood I mean something demonstrably false, not a view you disagree with – are far more common on the right than the left.
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House Democrats have subpoenaed Giuliani for documents related to his interactions with Ukrainian officials, but have not yet asked him to testify — citing his combative, falsehood-laden appearances on cable news.
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Given President Trump's penchant for exaggeration, distortion and falsehood, do you find yourself approaching your coverage of him differently from what you've done in the past when covering other political figures?
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In addition, fake news can be used to inaccurately make immigrants targets of political blame — for example, the falsehood that there were three million illegal votes in the 2016 presidential election.
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And as the leader of Likud and prime minister still -- perhaps for as long as four months -- he will pull out every trick, maneuver and falsehood to maintain himself in power.
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Against all evidence, and regardless of the truth, you and your deputies claimed that my campaign colluded with the Russians—a grave, malicious, and slanderous lie, a falsehood like no other.
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They thrill precisely to the falsehood of a statement, because it shows that the speaker has the power to reshape reality in line with their own fantasies of self-righteous beleaguerment.
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Another example of gaslighting: Trump falsely asserting once again that Hillary Clinton started the Obama birther conspiracy, even though he's the one who built his entire political career on the falsehood.
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"This biblical episode brings to light an essential element for our reflection: There is no such thing as harmless disinformation; on the contrary, trusting in falsehood can have dire consequences," he said.
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"We recognize that the boundary between political hyperbole and downright falsehood can blur, but Facebook draws precisely that type of content-based distinction thousands of times per day," the PEN statement continues.
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Jack Posobiec, a well-known figure on the far-right internet, tweeted the falsehood that Mr. Vindman had been advising the Ukrainian government on how to counter Mr. Trump's foreign policy goals.
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So rather than make false claims — such as a notorious fake video that targeted a woman politician in 2016 — digital operations walked up to the line of falsehood but didn't cross it.
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The stunt that House Republicans pulled yesterday — storming a secure room in Congress, where sensitive national security matters are discussed, in order to halt an investigative hearing — was based on a falsehood.
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" (His oft-used falsehood that snow storms and cold weather debunk global warming has been repeatedly debunked by scientists.) Silverman ended her first tweet with the suggestion that Trump should eat "s—.
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Fact-checkers have done a fine job of debunking Trump's wild assertion that millions voted illegally, although many headlines too credulously described it simply as a "claim" rather than a demonstrable falsehood.
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Falsehood flies, and the Truth comes limping after it; so that when Men come to be undeceiv'd, it is too late; the Jest is over, and the Tale has had its Effect.
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After all, InfoWars is infamous for spreading the falsehood that the Sandy Hook massacre was a false flag operation, a lie that caused Jones's fans to harass families of the mass shooting.
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People, I know some of you get very frustrated that news coverage of this election does not begin every day with: "In yet another total falsehood, Donald Trump …" This is your moment.
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In the book, which CNN obtained Thursday, Comey wrote that Trump wanted him to prove the allegation was false in part to prove its falsehood to his wife, first lady Melania Trump.
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Likewise, Alex Stamos, formerly at Facebook and now at Stanford, noted that much of the public discussion has been about how Russia used profiles of fake Americans to sow discord and falsehood.
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Ultimately, the issue is whether we allow an unaccountable international bureaucracy to attack Israel by fabricating history, replacing fact with falsehood, and denying the legitimacy of the foundations of Judaism and Christianity.
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But to suggest, as the Trump administration now does, that the United States has done nothing, and use this falsehood to justify favoring Christians over others among our refugee admissions, is outrageous.
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It's also clear, from Russia's successful intervention in the last United States election, that Facebook can be a vehicle for propaganda and for the blurring of the line between truth and falsehood.
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There is real merit to this argument — not all the content that some people might consider false is factually so, and in some cases, the falsehood is more a matter of opinion.
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There are a ton of misconceptions when it comes to credit cards and credit scores, including the falsehood that having more than a few cards will spell disaster for your credit score.
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Perhaps West is taking aim at the falsehood and overexposure of celebrity, but the way he's doing it—by bullying, essentially, by barreling through—negates any point he may be trying to make.
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After the plot came to light, Kelly and Baroni claimed the lane closures were part of a traffic study, a falsehood that was denied by Port Authority officials and rejected by the jury.
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Attraction is a lawless state, and there is nothing in this theory that can't be debunked by the existence of Timothée Chalamet alone, but let's address the primary falsehood it is based on.
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When something is so insanely bizarre to you and seemingly only you, that you begin to believe you live in a world that works day and night to convince you of a falsehood.
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" Mr. Tapper retweeted the message to his 19543 million followers, adding, "This falsehood-filled tweet reminds me: @TheLeadCNN was No. 1 in cable news in the key demo for the month of March.
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Trump uttered one such falsehood on Monday, when he claimed that former President Barack Obama never got in touch with the families of United States soldiers who were killed while serving the country.
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Helped by new technology, a deluge of facts and a public much less given to trust than once it was, some politicians are getting away with a new depth and pervasiveness of falsehood.
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That said, there are other regulations that ban depictions of violence, murder and content that "mixes up value orientations such as truth and falsehood, good and evil, beauty and ugliness" and so forth.
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But before Mr. Trump got around to what was a grudging and terse admission, which itself included a falsehood about the provenance of so-called birtherism, he had some business to tend to.
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"And all of us have a responsibility to refute the notion that groups like ISIL somehow represent Islam, because that is a falsehood that embraces the terrorist narrative," he said in February 2015.
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A falsehood-filled speech from Trump Tuesday night didn't change this dynamic, and though the public seems to largely blame Republicans for the shutdown, there's polling evidence people aren't happy with Democrats either.
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If there are no institutions with transpartisan credibility capable of distinguishing truth from falsehood, then for all intents and purposes, there is no truth — only individual and tribal truths, assembled like Facebook profiles.
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Even when a New York Times health reporter followed up on Trump's claim about tests, it was framed as a conflict between the president and his advisers, rather than between truth and falsehood.
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"Monica sleeps with a guy on a first date, someone she's crazy about...he tells her a falsehood, that makes her fall for him," co-creator Marta Kauffman explained on the anniversary special.
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Rather than respond immediately, one City Hall official said, the mayor decided to wait before addressing what was seen by his aides as a falsehood — "fiction," Mr. de Blasio called it on Sunday.
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And it's for history's sake that I write this now, 20 years on — for in the last few years, a falsehood has begun to replace our knowledge of what happened at Columbine and why.
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That's why the truth or falsehood of his "simplistic and outdated" attacks on wind power don't matter to his supporters, political communications scholar Jen Schneider of Boise State University told BuzzFeed News by email.
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"Anyone who claims that Prop C is a matter of being 'for the homeless or against them' is selling a facile falsehood," Stripe CEO Patrick Collison wrote in a blog post earlier this month.
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If the alleged falsehood is posted using "an inauthentic online account or controlled by a bot," the total potential fine rises to 100,000 SGD (around $73,000), and, or, up to 10 years in prison.
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Although their propaganda perpetuates the falsehood that they are killing in the name of Allah, the reality is that most ISIS fighters are being exploited for the benefit of war profiteers and Godless opportunists.
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A study published last year in Science, a journal, concluded that "falsehood diffused significantly farther, faster, deeper and more broadly than the truth" and that this effect was especially strong for fake political news.
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Whether Shakespeare or someone else wrote it, you have to admire the prescience of "Double Falsehood," at least as it's being staged in a well-conceived production by the Letter of Marque Theater Company.
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A BBC World Service poll last year found that 92 percent of Brazilians expressed concern about being able to discern between fact and falsehood online, the highest percentage of respondents in any country surveyed.
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Having a president who is either unwilling or unable to accept the reality of what he sees around him — and who instead slanders the press with an obvious falsehood — goes from disturbing to dangerous.
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Now, for allowing Mr. Ghomeshi to speak and refusing to join a mob that claims the right to judge the truth or falsehood of unproven allegations, court verdicts notwithstanding, Ian Buruma loses his job.
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People often get very worked up about whether a politician is technically "lying" when they say something that isn't true, or if they've just stumbled into falsehood as if accidentally falling off a chair.
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American intelligence officials and Fiona Hill, a Russia expert who served on Mr. Trump's National Security Council, say that the falsehood has infected American discourse as part of a yearslong disinformation campaign by Russia.
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If the alleged falsehood is posted using "an inauthentic online account or controlled by a bot," the potential fine rises to 100,000 Singapore dollars (around $73,000), and/or up to 10 years in prison.
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The falsehood had made it into the right-leaning media ecosystem, where other false allegations surfaced, like that Yovanovitch was anti-Trump and told Ukrainians to ignore him because he would soon be impeached.
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Like any autocrat, he wins his followers' trust — let's call it a blind trust — by lying so often and so brazenly that millions of people give up on trying to distinguish truth from falsehood.
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But it took the US election—and the ascent of Donald Trump, the insult-hurling, falsehood-circulating tweeter-in-chief—to shine a blinding arc light onto the role of technology on the political stage.
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Comedians are powerful — and sometimes more trusted and respected than journalists, as "The Daily Show" and company have shown — because they can say uncomfortable things flat-out, ditch the euphemisms, call a "falsehood" a lie.
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No lie or falsehood or hoax is more consequential than Facebook's belief that it is not a media company, and thus can shirk the responsibilities of one—beginning with a basic fidelity to the truth.
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The following year, Bush further built the case for his Iraq War by saying these 16 words: ...which, if you don't want to use the word "lie," was a total falsehood based on bad intel.
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Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi declared the end of Islamic State's "state of falsehood" a week ago, after security forces took Mosul's medieval Grand al-Nuri mosque - although only after retreating militants blew it up.
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It strongly suggests that the justification from Trump administration lawyers, in their presentation before the Supreme Court, for adding a census question on citizenship was an outright falsehood, or at the least a deliberate pretext.
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"This cynical falsehood about a nonexistent hotline was made to bolster O'Reilly's claim that the women who received settlements must have fabricated their claims or they would have complained," Ms. Smith said in a statement.
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In an email sent by the White House, Mr. Trump's surrogates were given a detailed list of talking points, including the falsehood that the report served as a "complete and total exoneration" for Mr. Trump.
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Mr. Peruri said that someone wrote letters, mostly anonymous, to the local papers and to his endorsers and major supporters, insinuating a falsehood: that he had been connected with insider trading in his former job.
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While private sector companies might try and get away with shading the truth in a favorable way, it's hard to imagine a company spokesperson telling the media a blatant, observable falsehood was actually an Alternative Fact.
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In the two weeks before his sudden statement on Friday, Trump was asked four times about his birther beliefs -- and Trump declined each opportunity to disavow the falsehood or his role in pushing that conspiracy theory.
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Klain played only one version of Holt, aides said, believing that the NBC anchor would fact check Trump when confronted with a blatant falsehood but also leave it to Clinton to do some fact checking, too.
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But Medicare and Social Security are enormously popular, which is why Trump himself claimed that it was Democrats, not Republicans, who were trying to wipe out Medicare in a falsehood-laden USA Today column last week.
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But Kempe knows his way around public relations, and even managed to mislead Politico, which reported that he said that the Council "doesn't have any financial relationship with the government or its agents"—an outright falsehood.
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The president's anti-science policies began on the campaign trail when he called climate change a hoax, directly contradicting decades of climate science data and research and instilling a falsehood as fact to millions of Americans.
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Unlike most politicians who, when caught in a falsehood or a lie, won't repeat it again for fear of the blowback, Trump seems to revel in saying things that have been proven not to be true.
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But it is absolutely telling about the state of Trump's marriage that he was asking the FBI director to prove the falsehood of the "pee tape" to his wife -- almost certainly because she wouldn't believe him.
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Around 2014, I read about the backfire effect, first described by Brendan Nyhan and his colleagues, which describes what people who believe in a falsehood do when shown a collection of facts that contradict their opinion.
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Political science research on ideology and partisanship, which Vox's Ezra Klein has surveyed extensively, shows it plays a profound role in shaping how people think about the world — even about basic issues of truth and falsehood.
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New research of mine suggests that this strategy can convince supporters that it's not all that unethical for a political leader to tell a falsehood — even though the supporters are fully aware the claim is false.
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In contrast, when judging a falsehood that makes a favored politician look good, we are willing to ask, "Could it have been true?" and then weaken our condemnation if we can imagine the answer is yes.
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Faintly echoing Mr. Trump's falsehood about the president's origins, he questioned Mr. Obama's Americanism ("He wasn't brought up the way you were brought up, and I was brought up, through love of this country," he said).
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This is a very familiar strategy that allows the vehicle of falsehood and defamation to escape criticism by placing the responsibility of discernment on those who are the recipients of the information the platform innocently delivers.
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The Lie of the Year — the only time PolitiFact uses the word 'lie' — speaks to a falsehood that proves to be of real consequence and gets repeated in a virtual campaign to undermine an accurate narrative.
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"If you guys feel like I'm portraying some kind of falsehood of motherhood, this is my real life — this is me on a Monday morning," she said, referring to her current situation in the Instagram Stories clip.
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" In an interview with NBC's "Meet the Press" the next day, Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway rejected Chuck Todd's assertion that the administration's crowd-size claims were a "falsehood" by saying that Spicer's numbers were legitimate "alternative facts.
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The result is the jumble ABC News presented Sunday, wherein a frustrated interviewer is forced to entertain the candidate's lies and try to rebut them in real time, knowing that defusing each and every falsehood is impossible.
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She makes an excellent argument for the value of feminism as an analytical lens: It is not a way to show respect or fill out the historical record, but a critical means of differentiating truth from falsehood.
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One of the Trump's campaign's most important lasting legacies will be its embrace of blatant falsehood as political strategy and its championing of outlets like Breitbart that would have been considered untouchable even a few years ago.
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"I am confident that Podesta most likely repeated his lie that I knew in advance about the hacking of his email, and am anxious to rebut this falsehood," Stone said in a statement to CNN on Tuesday.
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The FDA believes it sets the standard and the company has to prove effectiveness, Robertson said, but recent litigation is challenging that burden, saying it's on the FDA to prove falsehood and giving courts the final say.
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Realizing that it may be finally held accountable for its rhetoric on health care, the GOP is now pushing another falsehood: namely that the ACA is falling apart anyway, so it doesn't matter if Republicans destroy it.
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On the other other hand, if a site lies repeatedly, spouts conspiracy theories or even incites violence, it can maintain a presence on the site, because ultimately, there's no falsehood that will get you kicked off Facebook.
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To the Editor: If President Trump alleges news is "fake," the way to test him is to withhold publication of his allegation until he provides evidence to show exactly why he thinks a falsehood has been published.
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On Facebook and Instagram, which is owned by Facebook, searches for the hashtag #crisisactor, which accused the Parkland survivors of being actors, turned up hundreds of posts perpetuating the falsehood (though some also criticized the conspiracy theory).
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Nonfiction also seemed the best means for countering what Cercas considers the falsehood, righteously repeated every year on the anniversary of the coup, that the Spanish people and their institutions stood firm against the enemies of democracy.
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Donald Trump, who rose to prominence trumpeting the very "birther" falsehood that McCain once batted away, seems bent on undermining that tradition; he has proven he's perfectly willing to burn down political norms for short-term gain.
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"We stand for truth against falsehood, freedom against tyranny, right against injustice, hope against despair," McCain says in the ad, a quote from a speech the Arizona Republican had given at the Munich Security Conference in 2017.
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That was last week, and since then Conor has admitted to the falsehood of his retirement tweet, posting a long and emotional essay on facebook about having too many media obligations and not enough time to train.
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In an ideal world, the system would go further still and allow users (or Facebook employees) to suggest sources providing evidence of the falsehood, including myth-debunking sites such as Snopes or simply mainstream, respectable news sources.
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Ron Estes — whose middle initial is G., a fact that is ultimately irrelevant — would like to note that his opponent's middle initial is not just an identifier, but an indicator of the falsehood he is attempting to perpetrate.
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To say that NATO went to war after the American invocation of Article 5 is a falsehood; NATO did not budget, grow or deploy equally and this dichotomy shows through in the maturity of member state militaries today.
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Besides, she believes, once a person with dementia has lost the capacity to tell the difference between truth and falsehood, or, really, to hold beliefs at all, that person has also lost the capacity to be lied to.
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Mr. Trump called up like-minded sowers of the same corrosive rumor, asking them for advice on how to take a falsehood and make it mainstream in 2011, as he weighed his own run for the White House.
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Peter Vlaming, who taught French at Virginia's West Point High School, said in a complaint that school board officials tried to force him to "express an objective biological falsehood" by urging him to use the student's male pronouns.
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The second explanation would be that he is so profoundly incapable of separating truth from falsehood that it raises a legitimate question about whether to trigger the incapacity provision of the 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution.
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The researcher who goes by the nom de plume Garson O'Toole is familiar with the latter kind of falsehood—as the "Quote Investigator," he runs a charmingly web 1.0-looking site dedicated to tracing the origins of quotations.
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Once a Posobiec lie is posted on Twitter, the #MAGA community will elevate the falsehood by sharing it again and again, until it's so popular it might wind up becoming a talking point in places like Breitbart, GotNews.
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"Facebook has...given assurances that it will work closely with the Singapore authorities to swiftly address online falsehoods and yet, when there's an actual falsehood that attacks Singapore, Facebook refuses to remove the content," Edwin Tong told parliament.
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Under U.S. law, the president's executive order has to state an obvious falsehood, that there is "a national emergency with respect to the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security" of the United States caused by Venezuela.
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The falsehood Mr. Trump uttered in his speech on Monday echoes untrue reports of a cover-up of Islamic terrorism that have been made repeatedly on Infowars, a website that traffics in conspiracy theories like those about Sept.
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Wagner has adopted the notion of the sheep tree as a sort of mascot for pervasive falsehood — specifically romanticized or elided stories that Americans tell themselves about the forces that built the United States into a world power.
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Trump had moved on to another falsehood by that evening in a meeting with Congressional leaders, two sources told NBC News, where he expounded on a debunked accusation that millions of undocumented immigrants voted for his opponent Hillary Clinton.
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Clinton's alleged falsehood involves her private email server while she was secretary of state: why she established it, how forthcoming she was with State Department officials, how open she was once it was discovered, what it may have concealed.
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"This cynical falsehood about a non-existent hotline was made to bolster O'Reilly's claim that the women who received settlements must have fabricated their claims or they would have complained," Nancy Erika Smith, Bernstein's lawyer, said in a statement.
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One such falsehood was presented by my predecessor as Puerto Rico's representative in Congress and governor, Aníbal Acevedo Vilá, who asserted in a blog posted on The Hill that the U.S. citizens of Puerto Rico do not want statehood.
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To invent or reinvent a tradition, in this sense, is not to craft a falsehood; it is to add your own bit of labor to a larger inheritance, which your heirs may renew and reinvent in their own turn.
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The briefing has long been a venue for political reporters to pose tough questions, and for presidential press secretaries to bat those queries away with a mix of obfuscation, spin, semantic acrobatics and the occasional over-the-line falsehood.
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Yet, in the already released excerpts of the TV interview with George Stephanopoulos Sunday night, Comey intends to repeat the same knowing falsehood that he was "obligated" to send his letter to Congress because he promised to do so.
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Trump continued to claim that the country's murder rate is at a 45-year-high, which it is not, complained that the media will not repeat that falsehood, and marveled at a child's rubber mask of his own face.
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Death is itself tragic enough but the silence of so clear a voice of reason when the body politic seems on a race to see who can create the biggest dung hill of falsehood and slander, is a national tragedy.
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For the magazine's upcoming April 3 issue, President Donald Trump was interviewed about "truth and falsehood in his career," which, as we can guess from his first few controversial months as president, is bound to be interesting (to say the least).
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It's a falsehood that we have contend with every day, whether we are staring down the barrel of a police officer's gun or our life is being boiled down to a handful of misbegotten transgressions in a New York Post column.
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The Trump administration's policies, from immigration to trade, have had tones of nationalism and xenophobia (the man did start his presidential campaign by calling Mexicans criminals and rapists, and championed the falsehood that President Obama wasn't born in the U.S.).
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Courts have in recent years ruled that discussions involving truthful and scientific information are allowed, which could affect who is responsible for rooting out falsehood, said Christopher Robertson, a law professor at New York University and the University of Arizona.
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"Right on cue, Trump's incoming White House press secretary was on the morning shows today spinning the falsehood that there is 'zero evidence' that Russia influenced the election through their hacking of DNC and Clinton campaign officials," the DNC email stated.
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Much has been said in the past few days about the decency and honor John showed when, in an intense battle for the presidency, he stopped his own supporters if they leveled a personal insult or falsehood against his opponent.
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Kellyanne Conway's recent insistence that we judge Trump not by what "comes out of his mouth" but by "what is in his heart" turns the distinction between truth and falsehood into matters of emotions rather than arguments open for evaluation.
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"When your castle is constructed on utter falsehood, one of the things you have to do over time is take all of the power out of the truth," Himes said on CNN's "New Day" Tuesday about the new focus on Rice.
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Trump also expected the FBI director to serve as the presidential fixer and prove to the first lady the falsehood of the "pee pee" tape mentioned in the Steele dossier, the alleged encounter between Trump and prostitutes in a Moscow hotel.
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Later, in what was apparently an ad lib, he claimed he wanted legal immigrants to come "in the largest numbers ever," an obvious falsehood given his administration's work to restrict the ability of people to come to the US legally.
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But these books contain a central falsehood: Not only is obesity an extremely complex problem unlikely to have a silver bullet, but what works when it comes to weight loss for any individual is unlikely to work for everybody else.
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Still, Trump's self-invention is remarkable for its scale and depravity — the way he grasped how hyper-individualism, the money culture, simmering anger, and the collapse of the line between truth and falsehood could be channeled into a victorious presidential campaign.
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A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday ruled that whistleblowers do not have to prove that a doctor's judgment was an "objective falsehood" in order to pursue claims that a prognosis led to false claims for Medicare reimbursement, deepening a circuit split.
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Nonetheless, poison has come back in vogue in the shadow world of espionage — a privileging of subterfuge over brute force in keeping with the insidious expansion of warfare to the virtual world, lending everything the sheen of falsehood and conspiracy.
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" Noting the disdain many in her party have for Mr. Trump, Ms. Pelosi said that during her tenure as leader, Democrats "worked with President Bush, even though he took us into the war in Iraq on the basis of a falsehood.
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Mr. Modi can rely on uninterrupted sycophancy from almost all of India's major television channels and newspapers; "Modi toadies" (Salman Rushdie's term) broadcast uncritically, among other things, the falsehood that Indian fighter jets bombed and killed major terrorists in Pakistan.
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Some claims, like the falsehood about the inauguration crowd, appealed to Mr. Trump's supporters, and some appealed to his opponents: for instance, a false report (which circulated widely on the internet) that Mr. Trump had removed a bust of the Rev.
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So it's notable that Facebook is taking a strong position on deepfakes before the technology has actually gotten sophisticated enough to create truly convincing fake videos of real people—a potentially apocalyptic scenario for humanity's ability to tell truth from falsehood.
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The people who ship soil-grown flowers from across the globe — which are the bulk of a roughly $31 billion floral industry — are the ones selling a falsehood; what authentic connection to nature could possibly arise from such a convoluted arrangement?
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The fact that they're promulgating this falsehood that he's funding the caravan is an effort to give rebirth to this blood libel, that Jews are bringing impurity to the country, they're bringing other people to dilute the purity of the country.
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When contending with the falsehood, bigotry, and abuse inundating the internet—which Lisa Nakamura bluntly describes as a "trash fire"—we employ a metaphor of pollution, reflecting both its ubiquity online and the threat it poses to the digital environment.
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How can the university turn a blind eye to what every historian knows to be a key instrument of modern authoritarian regimes: the capacity to dress falsehood up as truth and reject the fruits of reasoned argument, evidence and rigorous verification?
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The falsehood of Zeman's claim that he would meet with Trump became clear due to an obvious contradiction: if you already have an invitation from the president-elect, you don't need to hire lobbyists to force a meeting with him.
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"Falsehood diffused significantly farther, faster, deeper, and more broadly than the truth" For example: Further, the researchers found that automated bots — which have made headlines for their role in spreading false information during the the 2016 presidential election — played a minimal role.
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READ: The Mueller report: A catalog of 77 Trump team lies and falsehoods CNN's approach to analyzing the statements was this: Every time Mueller documented a questionable claim-- even if it was the same potential falsehood told again and again—we counted it.
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And while there are other bits of evidence that prove the Trump Time cover is a fake, it's difficult to figure out who made it, why they made it, and how Trump's staff decided to hang the falsehood inside the billionaire's golf clubs.
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That this whole storyline has the ring of falsehood — no pastors were jailed in Houston, and nobody seems to have tried the same thing again — isn't all that important in the God's Not Dead universe, because the implication is that it could happen.
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As scholars like Molly Roberts have shown, states like China and Russia discovered how they could "flood" internet discussion with online nonsense and distraction, making it impossible for their opponents to talk to each other, or even to distinguish between truth and falsehood.
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"I announce from here the end and the failure and the collapse of the terrorist state of falsehood and terrorism which the terrorist Daesh announced from Mosul," he said in a speech shown on state television, using an Arabic acronym for Islamic State.
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News Analysis WASHINGTON — When Donald J. Trump descended on the capital Friday, he was expected to finally concede that the racially tinged falsehood he had gleefully propagated, that President Obama was born outside of the United States, had in fact been a lie.
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A 2011 CJR article noted that one study showed that the more effective way to fact-check the conspiracy theory that Barack Obama is a Muslim would be to state the fact -- Obama is a Christian -- rather than state and correct the falsehood.
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But, but, but: Even as social media companies realize they may need to intervene to police some forms of falsehood on their sites, they're under blistering attack from conservatives in the U.S. who claim that the companies' moderation policies are biased against them.
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This has stirred suspicions that the Kremlin has had a hand in the fake news industry, prompting American researchers to assert in recent studies that the online blurring of the boundary between truth and falsehood is in part the result of Russian manipulation.
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He is still mocking his rivals and the news media, he continues to propagate conspiracy theories such as the falsehood that there were millions of illegal votes in the election, and he still spends a good deal of time watching television news.
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A columnist, radio host and prominent Trump supporter, Mr. Root is also known for engaging in conspiracy theories, including the falsehood that Mr. Obama was not born in the United States, a fiction that Mr. Trump also trafficked in at one time.
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"In addition to winning the Electoral College in a landslide, I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally," the President-elect fumed in a tweet -- based on a falsehood -- that underscored his enduring addiction to conspiracy theories.
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They have offered the textbook illustration of George Orwell's observation, in his essay ''Politics and the English Language,'' that the euphemistic phrases of political discourse often serve not to disguise outright falsehood but rather to dress up objectives ''too brutal for most people to face.
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" Later in the ad, she acknowledges this is a falsehood, and contends that "what [Mark] Zuckerberg has done is given Donald Trump free rein to lie on his platform — and then to pay Facebook gobs of money to push out their lies to American voters.
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Cuomo pointed out this falsehood and also noted that former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort had multiple interactions with Russians during the campaign, including allegedly sharing 2016 polling data with his former Russian-Ukrainian business partner Konstantin Kilimnik, who reportedly had ties to Russian intelligence.
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"I announce from here the end and the failure and the collapse of the terrorist state of falsehood and terrorism which the terrorist Daesh announced from Mosul," Haider al-Abadi said in a speech shown on state television, using an Arabic acronym for Islamic State.
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And I'm wondering, along with a lot of other people: Does the media emerge from this campaign year having learned important lessons that made it better — quicker to call a falsehood false (or, if you prefer, a lie a lie) and treat all comers seriously?
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"The return of al-Nuri Mosque and al-Hadba minaret to the fold of the nation marks the end of the Daesh state of falsehood," Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said in a statement, referring to the ultra-hardline Sunni group by an Arabic acronym.
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Some have given it a catchy name and a hashtag—#Pizzagate—but, let's also call it what it is: a politically motivated falsehood that hasn't been effectively contained and diminished by those who control all the levers of power in our increasingly divided country.
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When Kraft tells the story now he calls it "a business trip with my friend Sandy Weill," and that is not a falsehood or even an elision; Kraft is indeed friends with Weill, the disgraced architect of Citigroup, and both were on the trip.
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That distinguishes it from a wide range of other kinds of false statements that people make: This last one is a "demonstrable falsehood," though to know whether or not it's a lie, you would have to know, subjectively, what the person saying it knows.
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But Mr. Howard, the second-longest-serving prime minister in Australian history, is also known for taking a harsh, uncompromising position on migrants: He won re-election in 2001 on the back of resisting so-called illegal immigrants, and by peddling a falsehood about them.
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Next, we hear mountains of praise about how qualified and objective the nominee is; then, fawning reports about his love of his family; then, things turn to the central falsehood: We hear how the nominee's personal views absolutely do not play into his decision-making.
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Trump offers an outright falsehood about Joe Biden during the call, saying that Biden "stopped" some (non-existent) prosecution, but he also offers a litany of misleading statements, including his reference to the conspiracy theory that Russia did not actually hack Democratic emails in 2016.
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Now some say Flynn's fondness for spreading fake news casts doubt on his fitness to serve as the White House's national security adviser, suggesting that he either can't spot a blatant falsehood or is just ideologically bent to believe the worst of his perceived enemies.
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Online, everyday actions like responding to a falsehood in order to correct it or posting about a conspiracy theory in order to make fun of it—case in point, QAnon—can send pollution flooding just as fast as the falsehoods and conspiracy theories themselves.
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It is a canard, a falsehood, a fairy tale, and a steamy pile of BS." Stone said the parallels between Nixon's downfall and the attempted "deep-state takedown" of Trump—where spies and FBI agents supposedly undermine the will of the people—are "eerie.
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Trump has cited this obvious falsehood in the past to claim that he won a majority of legitimate votes — and that his presidency thus has a popular mandate, and he did not merely defeat Hillary Clinton due to the geographic whims of the Electoral College.
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"Victory is very near, only 300 meters separate the security forces from the Tigris," military spokesman Brigadier General Yahya Rasool told state TV. Abadi declared the end of Islamic State's "state of falsehood" on Thursday, after the security forces took Mosul's medieval Grand al-Nuri mosque.
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It feels ironic to hear Lady Bunny so nauseated over falsehood, given that she makes a theatrical costume change in her show, and is still wearing her characteristic, sky-high, platinum blonde wig and heels, but again, she's just self-deprecating enough to make the disconnect work.
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"As a result, LTC Vindman and his family have been forced to examine options, including potentially moving onto a military base, in order to ensure their physical security in the face of threats rooted in the falsehood that Fox News originated," Pressman wrote in the letter.
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"I announce from here the end and the failure and the collapse of the terrorist state of falsehood and terrorism which the terrorist Daesh announced from Mosul," Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said in a speech on state television, using an Arabic acronym for ISIS.
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The idea that immigration and globalization make it somehow impossible to tax the rich, fund social services, and demand higher wages is a falsehood deliberately perpetrated by economic elites who simply don't want to pay higher taxes and higher wages to improve middle-class living standards.
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We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas and alien philosophies and competitive values for a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation afraid of its people.
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He at first tried various forms of gesticulation and pointing, but was unclear whether he had effectively communicated his deception to Ug. Suddenly it occurred to him that if he said, "The wildebeest went to the right," he could more effectively trick Ug into believing this falsehood.
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The results of the experiments, published recently in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, show that reflecting on how a falsehood could have been true did cause people to rate it as less unethical to tell — but only when the falsehoods seemed to confirm their political views.
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Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif criticized the latest letter from the European nations, describing it on Twitter as a "desperate falsehood to cover up their miserable incompetence in fulfilling [the] bare minimum of their own #JCPOA obligations," referring to the acronym for the 2015 nuclear deal.
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This is the purest strain of Trumpian falsehood, the one where the motives are the most obvious, the New Yorkiest brand of BS. I won't venture to guess what it means when a man lies to make himself seem richer, or his buildings taller, or his putts more accurate.
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When Chancellor Angela Merkel was wrestling with a dire political crisis in Germany this week, Mr. Trump jumped in with a typically gratuitous swipe about how migration is "rocking the already tenuous Berlin coalition," throwing in the falsehood that crime in Germany is "way up" because of immigrants.
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"The claim they have reproduced the prevalent CCR5 variant is a blatant misrepresentation of the actual data and can only be described by one term: a deliberate falsehood," Fyodor Urnov, a genome-editing scientist and the University of California, told MIT Technology Review in response to the research.
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Ever the salesman, Mr. Trump painted his presidency as he wishes it to be: an Electoral College victory so massive it was historic — a falsehood pointed out by a reporter in the room — plus accomplishments in the first four weeks that have outpaced, he said, every other president.
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It was obvious to media lawyers that Maher could seek a quick dismissal under the U.S. Supreme Court decision Hustler, which held that statements about a public figure reasonably understood to be a caricature, parody, or satire — a joke — are not actionable under any theory of liability claiming a falsehood.
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During a subsequent legal investigation, Cline allegedly lied about his medical practices in a letter to the office; the falsehood became obvious when "the result from the DNA analysis test factually state that Dr. Donald Cline is the biological father of Kristy Killion and Jacoba Ballard," the court documents state.
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Republican nominee Donald Trump rattles off inaccurate statements or flat-out lies on a regular basis (a POLITICO analysis clocked him at one falsehood every three minutes and 15 seconds) and his opponent, Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, while far more honest than Trump, doesn't have a flawless track record either.
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In the last election cycle we also went rather quickly from a widely believed politician-and-media-backed falsehood that Social Security was in serious financial trouble to even Democratic nominee Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonLewandowski on potential NH Senate run: If I run, 'I'm going to win' Fighter pilot vs.
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In the run-up to the 2016 presidential elections, AMI used the pages of its publications to gild the Trump image and attack his rivals, publishing one wild falsehood after another in an attempt to persuade readers that Hillary Clinton was either headed to jail or on the brink of death.
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During a surreal exchange, anchor David Muir grilled Trump over his continued spreading of the falsehood that millions of illegal ballots were cast in the 2016 election, which Trump had previously said was the reason for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton beating him in the popular vote by 3 million ballots.
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He eventually got around to trying to deflect from Mueller's investigation of his campaign for possible collusion with Russia by making unfounded allegations against Democrats, including accusing them of being the real colluders, and capped off his morning with a remarkably dishonest tweet in which each sentence contains a distinct falsehood.
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" Last year, the ruling People's Action Party (PAP), described a report on press freedom in Singapore by Human Rights Watch as a "type of deliberate falsehood" and "an example of how false and misleading impressions can be created by a selective presentation of facts, designed to promote an underlying agenda.
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Facebook wants you to post a privacy notice Whenever this Facebook falsehood pops up it spreads like wildfire online: Something in your Facebook news feed says you must post a legal notice or you'll lose copyright control of your pictures and other content you share with your circle of family and friends.
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EDT This article has been updated to include the fact that a link in the op-ed leads to an article which pointed out the president's claim was false as well as a link to the Washington Post which claims almost every sentence in Trump's op-ed included a misleading statement or falsehood.
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There's just no there here but because Trump has so fixated on the idea that he and Mueller have some sort of nasty history, it would be informative and instructive to hear Mueller explain how minor a matter this actually was and, in so doing, expose Trump's own tendency toward exaggeration and falsehood.
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The first lady was referring to a variety of attack lines Clinton has used to hit Trump in recent days and at Monday's debate, including his 2006 remark that he hoped for a real estate market crash, his criticism of a former Miss Universe's figure and his spreading of the "birther" falsehood.
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The idea that "more speech" is the remedy for falsehood comes from a 1927 Supreme Court case involving the First Amendment — and while "free speech" is often the clarion call of those like Dorsey, private entities like Twitter making decisions based on incredibly basic social norms has almost nothing to do with it.
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"It's a travesty based on a falsehood," said Anthony R. Smith, the son of Ruth Proskauer Smith, a celebrated feminist and reproductive rights advocate who had arranged to donate her body to N.Y.U. years before her death at 102 in her home at the Dakota, one of Manhattan's most fabled apartment buildings.
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If we find a piece of content that says that Donald Trump is clueless, or that Hillary Clinton belongs in prison, we accept the one because it reinforces our like for one candidate over the other, and discard the negative item as some falsehood generated by the opposing party to discredit your candidate.
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There have also been "fake news" Facebook posts that have suggested that a lack of a vote on Proposition 1 would be read as a "yes," a falsehood that has led to hundreds of confused emails to the state Board of Elections, which says it is doing its best to combat such disinformation.
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Errol Louis: Banning Jones shouldn't have taken this long As a journalist who believes in (and relies on) the protection of First Amendment, I cautiously applaud the decision by major digital outlets to restrict the propagation of the toxic brew of lies, hate and plain falsehood spewed by InfoWars and its mad impresario, Alex Jones.
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It provided personal data on its users to Cambridge Analytica without their consent; more details emerged of how it became a channel for misinformation in America's presidential election; WhatsApp (which Facebook owns) and Facebook's News Feed were both used to spread falsehood and rumour in India, Mexico and Myanmar, culminating in lynchings and genocide.
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"From birther claims about President Obama to the blatant falsehood that millions of undocumented immigrants voted in the most recent elections, and outrageous conspiracy theories and fake news like 'Pizza-gate,' the President-elect and his transition team have been willing to peddle complete fabrications with little regard for their dangerous consequences," Schiff said.
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He would have been ecstatic to learn that 40 years after his assassination America would elect Obama as our first black president, a monumental achievement of progress, but appalled to learn that his successor as president would spend years peddling the falsehood that Obama was not a true American, a monumental act of indecency.
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Now that Exxon Mobil, which spent decades willfully misleading the public on climate change, is to the left of President Trump, the true danger of climate "ambivalence," of decrying "overweening scientism" as our president razes environmental protections, should be apparent: it's anti-science, anti-environment, and an acknowledgement of an utter falsehood—even among its loudest supporters.
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At the very least, the API stats that Caulfield examined clearly show that false information shared about a presidential candidate on Facebook, by users who may or may not have been aware of the information's falsehood, contributed to the public consumption of that false information — just days before one of the most significant elections in US history.
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While the previous FCC took some action on this issue—the agency banned Charter Spectrum in 2016 from imposing usage caps and overage fees for six years as a condition of its merger with Time Warner Cable—the regulator has historically done very little to police usage caps and overage fees, despite it being based entirely on a falsehood.
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But, going back to my fellow Philadelphian, wise old Ben: What happens to the balance between truth and falsehood when an important portion of the national news media hands the political debate over to partisan operatives who, as a rule, skew the facts — or abandon them — in the service of their own political ends or business interests?
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Viewers slammed the show on Twitter for conflating the morning-after pill with the abortion pill, which has bigger implications than you might realize: Anti-choice activists and legislators have long used this falsehood as an argument for not covering EC or the copper IUD, which can also be used as emergency contraception, because they say they cause abortions.
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His argument was echoed by the California Family Council when that state became the first to adopt gender-neutral documents as law in 2017: "It advances a falsehood that being male or female or no gender at all is a choice each person must make, not a fact to celebrate and accept," said Jonathan Keller, the group's president.
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I did indeed travel to Aleppo, where I met with President Bashar al-Assad of Syria — a meeting that, far from secret, was documented in diplomatic cables and reported in the Argentinian press — but I did not meet with Mr. Salehi while I was there, and no credible evidence has been presented to support this falsehood.
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" Though Ambler never remarked on the merits of Baptiste's claims, Goguen's attorney Diane Doolittle further said today in a statement that: "Amber Laurel Baptiste's sensationalized lawsuit against Silicon Valley venture capitalist Michael Goguen collapsed under the weight of its own falsehood yesterday, when a judge dismissed the case because of Baptiste's repeated, egregious and willful misconduct.
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Trump was averaging five false statements per day during Sean Spicer's tenure as press secretary (the president has been even more prone to falsehood lately), but the nadir of his career was no doubt the time he was reportedly hiding in the buses on White House grounds with his staff after FBI Director James Comey was suddenly fired by Trump.
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But before we shrug off this bizarre attempt to gin up conflict as just another thing Trump does, more background noise of ordinary life in America, we should remember that this sort of falsehood—so brazen that it seems almost daring, too stupid to be believable—is part of what powered the mess of a movement that brought him to the White House.
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"The fact that the old lunatic Trump and his riff-raff slandered the sacred dignity of our supreme leadership using bogus data full of falsehood and fabrications, only serves to redouble the surging hatred of our army and people towards the U.S. and their will to retaliate thousand-fold," the state-broadcaster KCNA quoted the spokesman as saying, according to AFP.
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That's because Sanders, while no doubt a good mother and kind person in the private aspects of her life, occupies a job that is inseparable from the aspect of the Trump presidency that even people who agree with some of his policymaking should find deplorable — the communicative aspect, the rhetorical aspect, the aspect that deals with public truth and falsehood.
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He continued that trend Wednesday during his first visit to a war zone, using his appearance at an air base west of Baghdad to hammer Democrats over issues like border wall funding, defend a recent series of foreign policy decisions that have been widely criticized at home and repeat the falsehood that he had given troops their first pay raise in more than 10 years.
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"The State Department has peddled three untruths to the American people: the false story that Iran deal talks were sparked by the election of moderates in Iran who actually never existed, the deletion of video footage showing the Department's admission of that falsehood, and the now discredited claim that the deletion of the footage was merely 'a glitch' rather than an intentional manipulation," Cotton said.
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Orwell's "1984" was at once a savage satire of the Soviet Union under Stalin — from its rewriting of history to its cult of personality to its use of torture and propaganda — and a shrewd anatomy of totalitarianism that foretold the rise of the surveillance state and the fire hose of falsehood spewed forth daily by Putin's Kremlin and Trump's White House in attempts to redefine reality.
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When they have run "fake news," whether it's Stephen Glass's fictions at The New Republic in the 28503s or Sabrina Rubin Erdely's sensational Rolling Stone story of gang rape at the University of Virginia in 22019, it has been the result of either intentional malfeasance or extreme sloppiness by a writer and failures of editorial oversight at the publication — and the exposure of falsehood has been followed by retraction and apology.
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CNN host Jake Tapper said Monday that President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE was holding a campaign rally in El Paso, Texas, as part of an effort to spread a "falsehood" about how barriers reduced crime in the city.
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" Kaine also slammed Trump for previously casting doubt on whether President Obama was born in the U.S. "Donald Trump was the main guy behind the scurrilous and I would say bigoted notion that President Obama wasn't even born in this country, and Donald Trump has continued to push that irresponsible falsehood from – all the way up to now, and that's the difference in this election and the stakes.
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While it's tempting to see this error as just another presidential misstatement or falsehood, I would argue instead that Trump's description of these four women and their distinct cultural and ethnic heritages—Puerto Rican, African-American, Palestinian, and Somali respectively—as all equally "coming from" outside of the United States is entirely purposeful, and indeed comprises a core element of his and his supporters' exclusionary vision of American identity.
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"When it got to the logged area, it spread very rapidly and people just didn't have much time to evacuate in Paradise, so this whole notion that logging — so-called hazardous fuels reduction — was going to save the town is a dangerous falsehood," said Chad Hanson, a fire ecologist at the John Muir Project, an environmental group that has been critical of land-management policies and logging practices on public lands.
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Roger Cohen Opinion Columnist "The indigenous American berserk," Philip Roth's encapsulation of the country he loved, is a resonating phrase in this time of repetitive school shootings, incontinent presidential tweets, tawdry abuse of public office, rule by mob incitement, manipulation through falsehood, wall obsessions, and the truncation of the English language to a 77-word lexicon "better called Jerkish," as Roth described Donald's Trump's miserable linguistic impact in The New Yorker.
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The coronavirus has exposed the falsehood of so many notions Trump's base holds about the presidency: that experts are unnecessary; that hunches are a substitute for knowledge; that competence in administration is overrated; that every criticism is a hoax; and that everything that happens in Washington is B.S. Above all, it has devastated the conceit that having an epic narcissist in the White House is a riskless proposition at a time of extreme risk.
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It pulls eyes and ears away from the unpreparedness, conflicts of interest and extreme conservatism of so many of his cabinet nominees; from the evolving explanations for why he won't release his tax returns; from his latest delusion or falsehood, such as his renewed insistence that illegally cast ballots cost him the popular vote; from other evidence of an egomania so profound that it's an impediment to governing and an invitation to national disaster.
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Per the New York Times, it is still really, really easy to find hundreds of posts claiming the shooting was part of a "deep state" black flag operation or the like using Facebook's built-in search option, which kind of calls into question the company's sincerity:On Facebook and Instagram, which is owned by Facebook, searches for the hashtag #crisisactor, which accused the Parkland survivors of being actors, turned up hundreds of posts perpetuating the falsehood (though some also criticized the conspiracy theory).
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Libertarian presidential nominee Gary JohnsonGary Earl JohnsonScaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump Progressive Democrats' turnout plans simply don't add up Trump's GOP challenger: 'I may be reduced' to debating Alec Baldwin MORE says Democrat Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Republicans plot comeback in New Jersey MORE uttered the largest falsehood of the final presidential debate.
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As Hannah Arendt famously put it, when this happens, nothing can be believed anymore: One could make people believe the most fantastic statements one day, and trust that if the next day they were given irrefutable proof of their falsehood, they would take refuge in cynicism; instead of deserting the leaders who had lied to them, they would protest that they had known all along that the statement was a lie and would admire the leaders for their superior tactical cleverness.
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Almost overnight, finding themselves powerless and irrelevant, and forced back onto their traditional ancestral reservations along the coasts of California and New York, Democrats have resorted to pitiful ghost dances of lament, protest, violence, treachery, falsehood, and obstruction—all in a do-or-die frenzy to resurrect the messianic movement of their former beloved chieftain, Barack ObamaBarack Hussein Obama3 real problems Republicans need to address to win in 85033 Obama's high school basketball jersey sells for 0,000 at auction Dirty little wars and the law: Did Osama bin Laden win?
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Among the animal races — which, as species-ists, we have decided excludes the human race, a biological falsehood — from chimpanzees who hunt down colobus monkeys to cuckoos who kick other birds' eggs out of their nests and cats who toy with their prey, there are turf wars, food fights, and even infanticide, something that we can also see in the news when human males retaliate over what they see as a violation of their "breeding rights," shooting a girlfriend or wife and the child(ren) she took with her when she left his bed.
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