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If telling falsehoods is more convenient or helpful to him than telling the truth, he tells falsehoods.
The bill targets online falsehoods by requiring online service providers to correct or remove falsehoods that affect the public interest.
We're being led by a president-elect who harrasses people online, who retweets falsehoods, who makes up falsehoods, who's very aggressive and cruel.
Two weeks ago, the Select Committee on Deliberate Online Falsehoods released a report that, as expected, recommended new legislation to provide the government with "powers to swiftly disrupt the spread and influence of online falsehoods" and to prevent people from earning money from online falsehoods.
Enabling them to deliver falsehoods to large audiences, even in the rare instances when the falsehoods are accompanied by rebuttals, does the public a disservice.
Facebook has come under fire for not taking action against the President's ads containing falsehoods, such as one promoting falsehoods about former vice president Joe Biden's links to Ukraine.
Wittingly or not, Mr. Trump's representatives have used a subtle psychological strategy to defend his falsehoods: They encourage people to reflect on how the falsehoods could have been true.
Trump's latest impeachment falsehoods Trump made 81 false claims last week -- a tie for the fifth-highest total in the 27 weeks we have counted at CNN -- including new impeachment falsehoods.
" — 55 percent say social media "spreads lies and falsehoods.
But WhatsApp has been flooded with falsehoods and conspiracy theories.
The Definitive Field Guide to Filthy Animal Facts and Falsehoods.
That's 298 days of falsehoods — some small, others way bigger.
He wrote about one of Trump's falsehoods on Wednesday evening.
It took part in spreading falsehoods about the Rich family.
It's not unusual for President Donald Trump to spread falsehoods.
Who else does Mueller know about who repeated Flynn's falsehoods?
"We can't accept a fallacy, fiction and falsehoods," Chamisa said.
There are a couple of straightforward falsehoods in Whittle's rambling.
Falsehoods are being spread about you and your fellow immigrants.
By contrast, falsehoods and false hopes fuel war and terror.
In total, the Post counted 133 falsehoods since Jan. 20.
I want to walk you through those falsehoods this morning.
The pattern becomes especially clear when they descend into falsehoods.
Jones' Holocaust denials are built, like all others, on falsehoods.
You exposed our falsehoods and truths with a poetic understanding.
In the war against blatant falsehoods, integrity is the key.
And social networks simply provide another way to propel falsehoods.
The president often uses the service to seed threats and falsehoods into the world — falsehoods that are then picked up and amplified by supporters and critics alike, ricocheting to deafening effect across the news.
" Todd responded by saying, "Alternative facts aren't facts, they are falsehoods.
The public should call Trump and Spicer out for these falsehoods.
Over the years, many similar falsehoods have surfaced and circulated widely.
But the power of satire goes beyond effectively debunking specific falsehoods.
But we cannot stand silent in the face of deliberate falsehoods.
Are there other falsehoods you've heard while passing the cranberry sauce?
Here are 10 of the most prevalent falsehoods on the app.
But Todd pushed back against Conway, saying alternative facts are falsehoods.
The claims made against him then were "damnable falsehoods," he said.
Politicians lie not furtively but with pride; falsehoods are rewarded with
When that excuse proved inadequate, they tried to distract with falsehoods.
" The official justified the falsehoods by saying, "This is the play.
And he certainly doesn't like being called out for his falsehoods.
Only problem is, much of the information is based on falsehoods.
Several newspapers resisted the pressure and refused to print the falsehoods.
This pattern is consistent with recent research about how falsehoods spread.
It didn't help that the moderators themselves were often peddling falsehoods.
For years, the gun lobby motivated supporters through fear and falsehoods.
If journalists are documenting his falsehoods, they themselves must be fabulists.
But anonymously sourced falsehoods can spread like wildfire, harming people's careers.
Trump's remarks about Puerto Ricans "healing rapidly" aren't just harmless falsehoods.
Hendrickson acknowledges that Wright's "Autobiography" is notoriously riddled with deliberate falsehoods.
The President has spread dozens of lies and falsehoods about Ukraine.
Judge Newbauer concluded that Officer Nunez's account was riddled with falsehoods.
In Trump's first 100 days, he averaged 4.2 falsehoods a day.
He repeated falsehoods about Dorian at a press conference on opioids.
So this is an effort to sow these falsehoods against Biden.
One common goal is a better informed public, rejecting rampant falsehoods.
That's an average of eight falsehoods or mistruths a day. EIGHT.
There, its leaders once again had to challenge falsehoods about them.
On debate days, Dale counted at least 30 falsehoods a night.
So, too, were widely shared political videos — some styled as newscasts — containing outright falsehoods, newslike image memes posted by individuals and shared by millions, and endlessly shared quotes and video clips of the candidates themselves repeating falsehoods.
In this way propaganda, including Russia's demonisation of Ukraine, makes falsehoods credible.
I'm opposed to a seemingly endless stream of lies and repeated falsehoods.
Now you have Trump strafing Facebook with campaign ads popping with falsehoods.
You can see all the hoaxes and falsehoods about the caravan here.
That's basically one falsehood every 169 words, or 1.16 falsehoods every minute.
The president of the United States himself has embraced all these falsehoods.
These are facts, in the face of which fictitious falsehoods are embraced.
Truth is for pussies, wimps, everybody's trumpeting falsehoods, it's a cultural cancer.
And those are just the falsehoods that have drawn the most attention.
The tweets are riddled with misinformation and, in some cases, outright falsehoods.
Not telling falsehoods, misstating the facts, or spreading misinformation—but outright lying.
How is that different than Tom Brady telling falsehoods about his concussions?
But in Hungary, it is the government itself that's pushing such falsehoods.
And Trump's media allies have created an echo chamber for the falsehoods.
The F.D.A. has looked at ways to eliminate both misunderstandings and falsehoods.
During the presidential campaign, Facebook helped spread falsehoods — the Pope endorsed Trump!
Then there is the entire multitude of gross exaggerations and outright falsehoods.
Bigotry, fear-mongering and falsehoods were once again his go-to themes.
But South Korean movies showed her that her teachers were teaching falsehoods.
Fake news is a real thing produced by active disseminators of falsehoods.
But like many political falsehoods, his also contained a trace of truth.
" These are remarkable words — "suffer us not to mock ourselves with falsehoods.
However, lying to ourselves, mocking ourselves with falsehoods just might do it.
We must, Snyder says, keep digging for the facts and exposing falsehoods.
His 80-minute appearance was pockmarked with exaggerations, falsehoods and misleading rhetoric.
" The story notes his "stance of defiance" and "leveling distortions and falsehoods.
Trump, after all, won the presidency despite a constant stream of falsehoods.
He ran a disastrous campaign called out for a series of falsehoods.
"No good business makes decisions that are based on falsehoods," he said.
Earlier this month, Facebook exempted politicians' advertisements from its broader rules that ban falsehoods in ads — effectively giving the all-clear to politicians and candidates for public office to spread deliberate falsehoods on Facebook's advertising platform without repercussions.
The legislation, called the Protection From Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Bill, would require websites to run corrections alongside "online falsehoods" and would "cut off profits" of sites that spread misinformation, among other measures, according to the Ministry of Law.
So Sanders simply parroted the falsehoods pumped into the bloodstream by her boss.
BuzzFeed News will be updating this list of incorrect information and debunking falsehoods.
" Among the first falsehoods that circulated was that the shooting was "antifa violence.
What Trump thinks are mere exaggerations in business, they frequently see as falsehoods.
In neighbouring Singapore, discussions about curbing "deliberate online falsehoods" are also under way.
But the network became a platform for conspiracy theories, falsehoods, and hateful gibberish.
" Cohen said the dossier was "riddled with total falsehoods and intentionally salacious accusations.
Zervos' lawyers say Trump's words were factual falsehoods that subjected her to threats.
And the bill for Donald Trump's years of falsehoods is now coming due.
How would the Roberts Court view a law that criminalizes falsehoods about elections?
However, I also need to address the blatant falsehoods that are being spread.
This isn't really a story about falsehoods, it's a story about media bias!
"Criminal sanctions should be imposed on perpetrators of deliberate online falsehoods," it said.
Nobody should feel sympathy for the deplatformed purveyors of conspiracies, falsehoods and anger.
What happens during the fall of a fascist regime propped up by falsehoods?
They're basing why they think who they know the Zodiac is on falsehoods.
But, reader, I cannot tell you these things because they would be falsehoods.
So falsehoods that are on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram are jumping to WhatsApp.
The report by the Mollen Commission noted a few established patterns of falsehoods.
Trump, with his habit of constantly offering demonstrable falsehoods, has earned the opposite.
Those falsehoods are no longer restricted to the dark corners of the internet.
The oil and coal industries spend large sums of money to spread falsehoods.
He's a volatile person who constantly spouts falsehoods and manufactures his own crises.
It's the latest disturbing example of politicians telling falsehoods about a proposed policy.
And the president frequently embellished details during his speech, or told outright falsehoods.
Falsehoods about election results can damage public confidence in the process, they say.
He says falsehoods all the time," Crowley said on "Meet The Press Daily.
Not all told deliberate falsehoods, Perls and colleagues wrote in a 2010 study.
But setting aside the falsehoods, the sheer chutzpah of Barr's comments is staggering.
That seems more like ridiculous vanity than an actual attempt to spread falsehoods.
But even his falsehoods seemed to fall within the bounds of accepted politics.
That was on clear display during Trump's speech Wednesday, which was riddled with falsehoods.
Fact-checkers routinely called out his unending stream of distortions, falsehoods and bogus provocations.
Or in the case of Kellyanne Conway, straight-up spouting falsehoods on national news.
Here are five that illustrate just how much Obama's presidency is built on falsehoods.
Trump has relied on brazen lies and falsehoods while responding to the Russia investigation.
Many Americans today are fundamentally unable to discern the difference between truth and falsehoods.
But recent history suggests that popular falsehoods about Facebook are nearly impossible to kill.
Yet the author's astringent approach to myths and falsehoods could be more evenly applied.
When the truth seems ludicrous, and falsehoods are widely believed, facts can be elusive.
That kind of coverage can spread misinformation by repeating rumors and falsehoods ad nauseam.
And that's only the latest in a seemingly endless list of absurd Trump falsehoods.
But there is something terribly wrong with basing those laws on bigotry and falsehoods.
There is no doubt that the Trump presidency is unequaled in ineptitude and falsehoods.
Throughout Trump's campaign and his presidency, he has tweeted and uttered falsehoods without consequences.
How quickly in an era of malleable truth do tantalizing falsehoods make the rounds.
The academic claimed that there have been a number of falsehoods spreading the controversy.
The Washington Post: Trump, Republicans settle on fear and falsehoods as a midterms strategy.
Establishing whether an ad contain falsehoods is difficult; at scale the task is monumental.
In June, for instance, Singapore passed the Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act.
Politico found that he issued falsehoods at the rate of one every five minutes.
The fact that seemingly reputable European media organs will regularly peddle falsehoods is remarkable.
But there were also plenty of falsehoods, misleading or disputed claims, or baseless accusations.
Of these, only 'malicious falsehoods' has been where Facebook refuses to draw a line.
However, the American president has weaponized falsehoods to the detriment of journalism, she said.
Social media platforms are effective in spreading falsehoods, but they can't make the rules.
It requires a dedicated political effort and consistent pushback against falsehoods and scare tactics.
The administration has come back with a mix of just-following-orders and falsehoods.
This divisive environment can make the media more susceptible to repeating and amplifying falsehoods.
In the least surprising development of all, President Trump is now repeating Cassidy's falsehoods.
These are cruel falsehoods that most people don't want to confront on broadcast television.
Bryant gave a supplement to the original report that contained falsehoods, the prosecutor said.
Trump deals less in shifty evasions and omissions than he does in clear falsehoods.
That means debunking falsehoods, and being transparent with readers about our process of reporting.
Lower than the 2,000 mistruths and outright falsehoods he has said since becoming President.
The Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Bill passed with 72 members voting in favor.
Mueller did not elaborate in that court filing about what falsehoods Manafort allegedly told investigators.
Democrats focused on rebutting falsehoods and highlighting specific issues that are affected by net neutrality.
People can go to court to defend their integrity and correct falsehoods purveyed against them.
However, post-debate, four fact-checking sites had him telling far more falsehoods than Clinton.
Crovato did not respond to a follow-up asking what falsehoods he was referring to.
That was my proof: Fake news could make money by polluting the internet with falsehoods.
For years, it has been shrouded in gossip, falsehoods, and claims of ongoing ethical violations.
MOST resignation statements are anodyne falsehoods designed to paper over whatever disagreements led to them.
Hence, conservative Americans are more likely than liberals to believe falsehoods about the other side.
For proponents of truth, the hardest Trump falsehoods to challenge might be the smallest ones.
Liberals and conservatives believe falsehoods about genetically modified organisms, and believe that vaccines cause autism.
" Tapper added that he would "continue digging for the truth despite the bombardment of falsehoods.
One of those falsehoods is that Facebook is in any danger of losing its users.
CNN responded in October with a "#FactsFirst" ad campaign mocking the president for telling falsehoods.
And they endlessly push these falsehoods to protect themselves by getting others to believe them.
Falsehoods based on flawed logic at times appear louder than the facts from medical providers.
His endless and willful falsehoods have corroded the foundation of trust necessary for civil society.
Falsehoods about weapons and combat shown in movies have a way of becoming mainstream understanding.
And to justify this regressive policy, Trump is using two familiar ingredients: fear and falsehoods.
This complaint is just the latest example of anti-religious falsehoods wielded to destroy lives.
Police falsehoods also impede judges' efforts to enforce constitutional limits on police searches and seizures.
Surprisingly, (or unsurprisingly) the vast majority of their claims were either misleading or outright falsehoods.
Maybe that's a sign that the American people are becoming inured to Trump's falsehoods & distortions.
Given these new dynamics, how then should Biden's scattered falsehoods, exaggerations and conflations be judged?
All the participants were asked to rate how unethical it was to tell the falsehoods.
We use different standards of honesty to judge falsehoods we find politically appealing versus unappealing.
BuzzFeed News has compiled a running list of falsehoods and unverified information following the killing.
BuzzFeed News has compiled a running list of falsehoods and unverified information following the attack.
BuzzFeed News has compiled a running list of falsehoods and unverified information following the outbreak.
Discussion about actual political falsehoods can turn into squabbling about which "side" someone is on.
Of course, modern tools of communication make it possible to spread falsehoods with lightning speed.
Or rather, they're more willing to defend the university against these falsehoods than administrators are.
Unlike his freewheeling news conferences and rallies, Mr. Trump's prepared text contained few outright falsehoods.
" He also noted that Hager's letter "was riddled with factual errors, unsupported gossip, and falsehoods.
" He also said that Hager's letter "was riddled with factual errors, unsupported gossip, and falsehoods.
But the Times' list of falsehoods is itself a charade with gaping Montana-sized holes.
But none in my lifetime has spun so many falsehoods in the service of that.
Here's how the falsehoods, or half-truths, in Nicholson's briefing break down line by line.
While these inaccuracies have commanded much attention, there has been a steady stream of falsehoods.
Racist objects were originally used as propaganda tools to spread falsehoods about the Civil War.
But viewers are better served when moderators try to aggressively challenge clear falsehoods by candidates.
Other allegations against Clinton were often sidelined as consensual "passes" or dismissed as falsehoods altogether.
Handling falsehoods and 'alternative facts' Trump's unprecedented verbal attacks on the press, his chaotic management style and his assaults on the truth have often confounded his own advisers, placing some members of his beleaguered team in the position of explaining the President's outright falsehoods.
Myths and falsehoods about vaccines -- particularly about the link between a vaccine preservative and autism -- abound.
At the same time, digital platforms provide more efficient vectors than ever for falsehoods to spread.
Elizabeth Warren, meanwhile, ran a Facebook ad with falsehoods that acknowledged they were false midway through.
This underscored the challenge for tech companies to address falsehoods surrounding news events in real time.
Today you'll similarly find elite fingerprints all over the falsehoods that structure so much our politics.
By the time they do, the falsehoods may have already embedded themselves in the collective consciousness.
In Brazil, for example, the platform was flooded with falsehoods, conspiracy theories and other misleading propaganda.
True stories took, on average, six times longer than falsehoods to reach at least 1,500 people.
Ted Cruz manages to parse his falsehoods with the precision of a master debater and attorney.
" Clinton said during her contentious race against Trump that he was "an absolute avalanche of falsehoods.
" The Cruz campaign responded by saying Trump is angrily lashing out "with name-calling and falsehoods.
We should support solutions that reduce online falsehoods without large tech corporations increasing their editorial influence.
Standard Industries, in a letter to shareholders on Sunday, called Braas's arguments "misleading" and "outright falsehoods".
But notably, two of Murdoch's conservative outlets also held the Trump administration accountable for its falsehoods.
However, groups like CAIR also have the right to lay bare the hypocrisy behind these falsehoods.
The New York Times has also tried to make a definitive list of his numerous falsehoods.
The court has struck down laws that penalized falsehoods on free-speech grounds in other circumstances.
Unfortunately, Trump has a history of exaggerations, half-truths, and outright falsehoods, and becomes easily distracted.
Spicer, like his boss, routinely uses his lectern to bash the press or knowingly utter falsehoods.
He is betting that stupid people won't see through his boasts and falsehoods about the economy.
Despite this reality, some U.S. non-profit organizations continue to push falsehoods and support plain packaging.
Mr. Trump has unleashed a blizzard of falsehoods, exaggerations and outright lies in the general election.
If you believe that all politicians are liars, those outraged by Mr Trump's falsehoods are hypocrites.
The company encourages users who see falsehoods being posted to counter that message with the truth.
She argues that too often news outlets repeat falsehoods from Trump and his associates as news.
The falsehoods President Donald Trump tweeted Thursday morning about the Hurricane Maria death toll are disturbing.
He explains that they can generate new communities that create counternarratives to racist anti-immigrant falsehoods.
Fact-checkers thoroughly pointed out Trump's falsehoods before the 2016 election, and here we still are.
At numerous points throughout the interview, Todd let Trump get away with blatant falsehoods and gaslighting.
But it declared that Twitter's "open and real-time nature is a powerful antidote" to falsehoods.
Authoritarian powers, like Iran, have an easier time with hybrid conflicts built on deceptions and falsehoods.
Speaking of falsehoods, I found something that looked like one on my own Work Number report.
Mr. Trump's evident propensity to repeat outright falsehoods may make him an exception to this rule.
But Trump's still obsessed with legitimacy; hence his constant falsehoods about overwhelming victory and crowd size.
And as more arrests and confrontations are being recorded, evidence of police falsehoods is more apparent.
President Trump honed a fearmongering message on immigration, laden with falsehoods, ahead of Tuesday's midterm elections.
" Wilentz described such thinking as one of "the most destructive falsehoods in all of American history.
In response, many Republicans have begun telling flat-out falsehoods about their positions on health care.
One comment by Sanders does not equal the mountain of falsehoods and innuendo pushed by Trump.
But we want to make it clear that people should not take advantage and spread falsehoods.
Hapgood said Tuesday that "a great deal of misinformation and outright falsehoods" have surrounded the incident.
If they're found to contain falsehoods, Evans says, they won't appear on the site at all.
The NBPC, breaking with tradition, endorsed candidate Trump early on in an announcement filled with falsehoods.
And there I beheld him, the master of lies,Weaving fresh falsehoods, to no one's surprise.
Vice President Mike Pence wrote a tweet on Friday with falsehoods linking Iran to Al Qaeda.
Social media algorithms often circulated utter nonsense or falsehoods simply because they were "liked" on Facebook.
The decision to outright remove harmful misinformation sits in contrast to Facebook's position on political falsehoods.
He was dishonest in all three venues, repeating some of his favorite falsehoods in rapid succession.
Breitbart News, the favored website of many a white supremacist, is known to peddle similar falsehoods.
Nicholas Kristof Should we journalists use the word "lie" to describe President Trump's most manifest falsehoods?
The real mystery nowadays is why the media seeks to expunge the falsehoods of prior presidents.
The president and the religious right are spreading falsehoods about abortion laws to inflame their base.
Of particular note are his "Bottomless Pinocchios," falsehoods that he has repeated at least 231 times.
They rarely call out Mr. Trump for spreading falsehoods or altering the meaning of their words.
What falsehoods do they have to gin up in order to convince themselves of certain things?
What followed was a lifetime of little and big falsehoods, some of which involved adopting false identities.
Washington (CNN)White House aide Kellyanne Conway seemed to acknowledge Tuesday falsehoods spread by the Trump administration.
BuzzFeed News is tracking and debunking the dubious rumors, memes, and falsehoods related to the midterm elections.
Ted Cruz (R-TX), have begun to entertain the conspiracies and falsehoods peddled by those fringe figures.
Powe now writes for the Gateway Pundit, a site that frequently traffics in falsehoods and conspiracy theories.
We hadn't actually noticed Trump playing nice, after his two-week tear of falsehoods and personal attacks.
He's been on an amazing hot streak lately, up to *9 falsehoods per day* over a month.
Falsehoods are not necessarily shared because they are false but because they confirm an already-held view.
Social media are also being scrutinised by a parliamentary committee which wants to fight "deliberate online falsehoods".
How to guard against malicious falsehoods while preserving as much access as possible for as many people?
But study participants didn't demonstrate the tendency to embrace falsehoods even more after being told the truth.
Voter suppression has long been a key staple of the Republican hold on power, Trump's falsehoods notwithstanding.
A lot of naysayers rattle off falsehoods like 'you have to eat oats to produce sufficient milk'.
Through content farms, through an enormous investment in falsehoods, fake news, call it what you will ... Lies?
Just as troubling as the details of the legislation itself are the falsehoods being spread about PACE.
He (and lots of others) will probably tell an awful combination of partial truths and outright falsehoods.
It was a weird cavalcade of non sequiturs and falsehoods that, on policy, was also completely vacuous.
And even an overly emotional KDP can point, convincingly, to a trifecta of falsehoods coming from Washington.
The bill is narrowly targeted at falsehoods designed to dissuade voters from participating in the electoral process.
It is less emotionally painful to believe falsehoods than to acknowledge the untrustworthiness of people we like.
Ahead of the trial's opening, her French lawyer, Emmanuel Moyne, said the investigation was based on falsehoods.
But the other day I heard her repeating these falsehoods to customers, and that made me uncomfortable.
When cable news organizations often seem unwilling to call out falsehoods, wrong information can cause tremendous damage.
And though the President's words may often contain falsehoods, what he says still has power, Stelter said.
And Hillary Clinton, who deserves none of this, will have to spend precious time overcoming patent falsehoods.
Trump's falsehoods, or misleading statements, increase in intensity: They averaged 16 a day in June and July.
And people of good will must play their part by calling out falsehoods and reporting those responsible.
Also, the majority of Trump's falsehoods came from his Twitter account, data from the Washington Post showed.
Hemmer and Faulkner were widely criticized for letting Trump repeat falsehoods without fact-checking or follow-ups.
Viral falsehoods include: false allegations about the gunman, a person of interest and Nevada's gun control laws.
The president spins falsehoods solely to make us afraid — of immigrants, of the left, of one another.
Why do high school history teachers continue to assign books that they know are filled with falsehoods?
It's almost a perfect distillation of the Trump political philosophy: A mix of white nationalism and falsehoods.
Chosen announcements are also thoroughly fact-checked: a process that sometimes turns up exaggerations or outright falsehoods.
These are falsehoods, and they have become a staple of Republican arguments opposing the impeachment of Trump.
But several top presidential candidates have yet to commit not to spread falsehoods on social media themselves.
Disagreement over basic facts is making it easier for politicians to spew falsehoods without paying a price.
Swisher asked Zuckerberg to discuss Facebook's "fake news" policy, which does not remove falsehoods but demotes them.
If anything, they made those supporters question the news organizations that reported the falsehoods all the more.
But her supposed confession had numerous falsehoods (added to bolster the prosecution) that torpedoed the government's case.
The government pursued him aggressively and often leaked falsehoods to the press to pressure him into cooperating.
A group of voters could be targeted with falsehoods about when or how to cast a ballot.
The law, known as the Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation bill, came into effect in October.
Steve Scalise (R-La.) to spread falsehoods about suppressors to vilify the Hearing Protection Act of 85033.
Since then, he has constructed an elaborate structure of falsehoods to justify his antagonism to wind energy.
Musk's "pedo guy" tweet is one of three that Unsworth branded as defamatory falsehoods harming his reputation.
Mr. Trump and the religious right are spreading falsehoods about New York's law to inflame their base.
Tom Wolf, a Democrat, argued that the request and the commission in general are based on falsehoods.
Letter To the Editor: "Words matter," Dan Barry noted earlier this year, in explaining why Donald Trump's lies need to be called lies, and not glossed over with euphemisms like "falsehoods" or "fake news" ("In Swirl of 'Untruths' and 'Falsehoods,' Calling a Lie a Lie," news analysis, Jan. 26).
Those who want to see Jones's falsehoods and tantrums can do so by going directly to his website.
There was the usual litany of gross exaggerations and outright falsehoods to keep the fact-checking machines whirring.
It's why reporters doubled down on fact-checking and calling attention to countless falsehoods coming from Trump rallies.
Even serene Singapore, which already has ultra-tough defamation laws, is considering further action against "deliberate online falsehoods".
Americans, I believe, can see through this president's falsehoods, and they will see the fallacies of this budget.
Several Republican presidential candidates continue to treat the falsehoods presented by the Center for Medical Progress as fact.
That means people can no longer share links to these domains, which helps reduce the spread of falsehoods.
In his defamation lawsuit against Kesha, Dr. Luke seeks damages for the harm caused by these malicious falsehoods.
Trump's lies are often predictable, given that he recycles and repeats the same falsehoods over and over again.
The falsehoods, most of which originated with the fringe movement QAnon, dramatically outnumbered results from credible news sources.
Ms Tang talks excitedly about countering Chinese disinformation by getting the government to respond faster to online falsehoods.
Donovan was not surprised that humans are the primary culprits when it comes to spreading rumor and falsehoods.
If, for example, bots are responsible for many of the falsehoods, we can focus attention on detecting them.
The Johnson account infrequently sent stories containing falsehoods and disparaging remarks about Clinton, according to the Daily Beast.
Watch Diane Foley's 2016 interview with VICE News: Foley also repeated falsehoods about abortion in the same interview.
Whether Ms Grande's and Lady Gaga's fanciful lyrics count as opinions or falsehoods, the government has not said.
When it comes to filtering out falsehoods, it seems, India's voters will be left to their own devices.
The survey showed nearly 2 in 3 people are unable to distinguish reliable news from rumors and falsehoods.
But when it's channelled correctly, the eagerness to reveal falsehoods functions as a self-organizing, spontaneous social good.
President Donald Trump's lies and falsehoods still have the power to incite new levels of rage and disbelief.
Those lessons are especially important in a time when even many adults cannot distinguish between facts and falsehoods.
But it's clear from the psychological research: once falsehoods are repeated, they are very hard to wipe out.
It's further proof of the well-documented fact that simply repeating falsehoods can make people belief they're true.
For an ideology based in falsehoods, that is perhaps the greatest victory they could possibly achieve under Trump.
The paper has been accused of "libel and publishing falsehoods to create public anxiety," according to its website.
Perhaps because we so frequently fail to recognize lying, society accepts telling falsehoods as part of human behavior.
So the Trump administration couldn't use simple errors or harmless falsehoods as reasons for stripping anyone of citizenship.
Today's POTUS performance was breathtaking in the sheer number of provable falsehoods, intentional mischaracterizations and outright lies uttered.
Trump has never renounced, or even acknowledged, the obvious racism of his birther falsehoods, and he never will.
Lawmakers have grilled Facebook repeatedly for its "fake news" policy, which does not remove falsehoods but demotes them.
Plus, the majority of falsehoods spread about climate change on Sunday's news programs weren't exactly new or novel.
Flynn's inability to distinguish easily between facts and obvious falsehoods seemed to worsen as the presidential campaign continued.
Fake news is the modern phenomenon of deliberate falsehoods or fiction masked as news circulating on the internet.
The president has repeatedly denied such claims and urged voters not to be taken in by such falsehoods.
Or a president who, once it's clear what he's saying isn't accurate, takes such pleasure in repeating falsehoods.
And during the campaign, Politifact published a survey indicating that 70% of Trump's campaign statements contained verifiable falsehoods.
That is a tall task — the president's penchant for half-truths, exaggerations and outright falsehoods is well established.
But his public comments were also filled with falsehoods and misleading claims about the coronavirus and the response.
These incidents have strengthened calls from some lawmakers for legislation to tackle what they term 'deliberate online falsehoods'.
"The statements they are making about his asserted misconduct are replete with inaccuracies and falsehoods," Mr. Jacobs said.
"This bill targets falsehoods, not free speech," the Ministry of Law said in a statement outlining the legislation.
But it's rare to have a special counsel call you out for spreading falsehoods on three separate occasions.
But he is not honoring Sergeant Johnson's sacrifice by insisting on falsehoods and stretching out this sordid spectacle.
At rallies, the president's most fervent supporters look past his falsehoods, racially charged statements and attacks on critics.
And new research from the Tow Center for Digital Journalism claims that Facebook is still rife with falsehoods.
It's that the politician involved is exploiting that attention for political gain and hurting the public with falsehoods.
That's above his average of 61 per week since Dale began tabulating Trump's falsehoods on July 8, 2019.
Provide and pinpoint exact times, places, situations and individuals to whom this president has allegedly propagated such falsehoods.
But he's transformed himself, adopting some of the president's favorite language and Trump's propensity for exaggerations and falsehoods.
The legislation, officially known as the Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Bill, was passed earlier this year.
In fact, in the case of false political advertisements, it's willing to get paid to spread those falsehoods.
Moreover, the baseless conspiracy theories and falsehoods peddled by the president and his most tribal supporters are dangerous.
There are three mechanisms for counteracting falsehoods: exposure, the education of consumers and the conscience of the producers.
"Please [do] not promote politically driven falsehoods that so clearly advance Russian interests," Hill said during her testimony.
But that description would also presumably be in violation of the Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Bill.
Once again, we have encountered another secret in a presidency that has been defined by obfuscation and falsehoods.
This overwhelming distrust of the once credible news media has blurred the lines between real news and falsehoods.
But the last decade has made the extent—and the consequences—of online falsehoods all the more clear.
But some falsehoods have graver consequences than others, such as lying to police about being a crime victim.
Kellyanne Conway, the president's counselor, then described falsehoods from Mr. Spicer, as "alternative facts," stoking even more debate.
" Hill: "I would ask that you please not promote politically driven falsehoods that so clearly advance Russian interests.
But where is the line between falsehoods that may incite violence and good, old-fashioned American political hyperbole?
Davey Alba on the struggles of the political campaigns to cope with the digital tidal wave of falsehoods.
The president mixed facts and falsehoods while talking about immigration, gun policy, trade, climate, taxes and other topics.
The Avedon Foundation's statement goes on to outline 10 specific alleged falsehoods and mistakes in Avedon: Something Personal.
The falsehoods they offer are crafted through the careful omission of fact rather than the inclusion of falsehood.
Spicer's version of "spin" includes outright falsehoods and harsh denunciations of stories that are critical of the administration.
Comparing the two categories of bots and humans, they found that each shared falsehoods at about the same rate.
In response, she asked if those falsehoods should matter as much as what Trump does say and do correctly.
White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer falsely accused the media of falsehoods — and then made several of his own.
He surrounds himself with sycophants and enablers, and he believes both the facts and the falsehoods he finds congenial.
The goal was to prevent the same outbreak of falsehoods, harassment, and digital manipulation that characterized the 2016 campaign.
To categorize her falsehoods as little white lies is letting her escape the gravity of the responsibility she holds.
Critics scoff that the government is guilty of many such falsehoods, and will have to start by prosecuting itself.
The ministry of information issued rules that would have revoked the credentials of journalists found to be peddling falsehoods.
To say I'll stop would just be another lie in a situation already mired in falsehoods and overlooked facts.
Critics say there is no way to distinguish between truth and falsehoods in the records turned over to Congress.
Time has a fascinating interview with Trump about his use of lies, falsehoods, untruths, and exaggerations, especially on Twitter.
Urge Facebook to crack down on outright falsehoods, make fact-checking easier, and serve links in a transparent way.
Central to the justices' analysis was the extent to which the First Amendment protected outright lies and other falsehoods.
It culminated in her accusing the Sanders campaign of spreading falsehoods about campaign contributions from the fossil fuel industry.
It means rebutting specific claims that come from the President that are grounded in conspiracy theories, falsehoods and rumors.
Or supported a war in Vietnam based upon falsehoods that even Trump doesn't have the imagination to dream up?
The statement accused the newspaper of publishing "malicious falsehoods" about Chamisa, although it did not specify what these were.
When he did give a major speech in response, it was roundly condemned for the numerous falsehoods it contained.
It doesn't only affect Donald Trump and his closest aides, who faithfully bolster his falsehoods, damaging their own reputation.
The "fact checks" of his falsehoods continue to pile up in staggering numbers, far outpacing those of Mrs. Clinton.
But this is not just about math, the government's finance and budgeting falsehoods have consequences that taxpayers will feel.
"We need a State Department, and a DHS website that immediately refutes when falsehoods are put out," he suggested.
"There have been a lot of interest groups that have been spreading falsehoods and dishonesty about this," he said.
The extinction of local news coverage continues apace, seemingly unnoticed by everyone arguing over bias and falsehoods in journalism.
Just as experts have tried to fill an information vacuum, sensational claims and outright falsehoods have continued to proliferate.
He said Mr. Stone then incorporated those falsehoods into his congressional testimony — an allegation that Mr. Stone vehemently denies.
Mr. Trump's approval rating is as high as ever, despite a slow coronavirus response and a series of falsehoods.
"Not many people pay attention any longer because Trump is averaging six to seven falsehoods a day," he said.
I think the nose grew so long keeping track of Trump's falsehoods last week that it hit the ground.
I think the nose grew so long keeping track of Trump's falsehoods last week that it hit the ground.
When someone has been attacked or endangered; when a vulnerable group has been targeted; when hoaxes and falsehoods rage.
"I would ask that you please not promote politically driven falsehoods that so clearly advance Russian interest," she said.
It's a big if, but if Flynn presents falsehoods face-to-face with the FBI, it's a potential felony.
Hemmer isn't known for aggressively fact-checking political falsehoods or challenging President Trump's misinformation the way that Smith did.
Clashes are inevitable when the administration under which those agencies work is so heavily in the business of falsehoods.
On all these subjects, the newspaper demonstrated that Ms. Le Pen had put forward half-truths and outright falsehoods.
But some officials were puzzled by the notion that Russia, which was known to have spread falsehoods about Mrs.
The disinformation campaign soon moved on to spread falsehoods about trans children, and other hot trans topics du jour.
But for a president known for falsehoods and crisis-churning bombast, the test of credibility appears far more daunting.
Falsehoods get squeezed out of it, lazy assertions stand up, naked and blushing, and rush out of the room.
Hamandishe faced six counts of kidnapping and one of publishing falsehoods and was detained in custody until Dec. 8.
In 2016, Trump propelled himself into the White House off that same current of strategic falsehoods and racist dog whistles.
Stelter also wondered how the media might change its approach when prominent political figures like President Trump spread blatant falsehoods.
Secondly, as a uniquely open service, Twitter is a vital source of real-time antidote to day-to-day falsehoods.
Eight MDC officials, including its national chairwoman, were freed on bail by magistrate Tashaya after being charged with publishing falsehoods.
The situation has drawn inevitable comparisons with our anxieties about fake news and public falsehoods, and there are certainly parallels.
The social network quietly introduced a system to flag news articles in the U.S. as "disputed" when they're suspected falsehoods.
WhatsApp has tried to discourage the tsunami of falsehoods by limiting how many recipients a message can be forwarded to.
Instead, it mirrored a line of falsehoods that President Donald Trump has been peddling since his surprise win last November.
He refused to answer questions; spewed falsehoods; and scolded reporters, creating an awkward situation for a visiting head of state.
And Twitter marked the day by shining a light on the falsehoods Trump has spread about autism and its causes.
When reporters repeatedly ask Republicans about those falsehoods, most of them say they haven't seen what Trump said, which Sen.
Social media make it ever easier to spread falsehoods; are people simply naïve who believe that truth will inevitably win?
Through content farms, through an enormous investment in falsehoods, fake news, call it what you will ... Mossberg: How about "lies"?
" However, the attorney representing the defamed law firm called it "an invitation to spread falsehoods on the internet without consequence.
Rieff extends his indictment by dwelling repeatedly on the distortions—if not outright falsehoods—of memory, contrasting it with history.
He would never lose his job for trying to justify the litany of falsehoods that the President espouses or tweets.
The President was asked about the claims again on March 22 during an interview with TIME about truth and falsehoods.
One particularly challenging notion has been reporting on the things Trump has tweeted or said without repeating any falsehoods therein.
It illustrates that online falsehoods could catalyze violent reactions in the real world next week, next month, or next year.
In accepting his party's nomination for the vice presidency, Ryan delivered a speech riddled with easily checked falsehoods and exaggerations.
Two sources told Reuters that they expect Mueller to review testimony from Stone, Kushner and Trump Jr. for potential falsehoods.
In some parts of this book, to my eye, Cunningham's deep passion for defrocking falsehoods has carried him too far.
While Trump undeniably tells many falsehoods, there is good reason to be cautious given we can't know Trump's subjective state.
The piece also accused Trump's administration of spreading falsehoods about China's abuse of international organizations like the World Trade Organization.
The second problem with this political war being waged on the FBI is that it is simply grounded in falsehoods.
The Times feature says that Trump made "public lies or falsehoods" every day during his first 40 days in office.
He tells blatant falsehoods to the press, consistently mispronounces the names of foreign leaders, and recently proved Godwin's Law IRL.
However, this hasn't stopped the administration from using falsehoods of increased extreme weather as the justification for its costly regulations.
Their tactics were similar to those outlined in Steele's Charlemagne investigation, including spreading falsehoods designed to turn voters toward extremism.
These malevolent actors continuously create manipulative content and shower the internet's leading platforms with their subversive falsehoods around the clock.
Editorial Donald Trump and his allies at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland peddled two falsehoods about America's immigration problem.
Think of that: The President of the United States averages -- AVERAGED -- 16 distortions or falsehoods -- every single day of 2893.
And despite its relative brevity, there are at least seven examples of exaggerations, mischaracterizations and outright falsehoods contained in it.
By Tuesday night, #IfSlaveryWasAChoice was trending worldwide on Twitter, calling out West and others who still entertain falsehoods about slavery.
Fairstein said the series was "full of distortions and falsehoods," though some of her claims don't seem to stand up.
These programs don't work, in part, because many of them actively promote misinformation and falsehoods about condoms, abortion, and STDs.
Trump ignored these attempts to shame him for falsehoods, just as he ignored all the fact-checking during the campaign.
Clinton's reputation for candor is checkered, her team hopes the debate might lay bare Mr. Trump's prolific assemblage of falsehoods.
His loyalists are strongly inclined to believe what he says, and to forgive falsehoods that they see as harmless exaggerations.
Falsehoods about women who report sexual assault don't just prevent women from coming forward, they make the public less empathetic.
Trump's falsehoods about abortion at Wednesday night's debate were no less wrong and dangerous than many of his other lies.
In recent days, Chinese officials have refined their messaging to move away from outright lies or falsehoods, Ms. Gabrielle said.
It was a big deal when the New York Times chose to use the word "lie" to describe Trump's falsehoods.
In an essay in the London Review of Books last year, Bromwich provided insight into how Trump justifies his falsehoods.
In these midterms we need to vote for people who will be a restraint on cruel policies based on falsehoods.
But as one of the world's most valuable and powerful companies, it should also come clean about the president's falsehoods.
Amid a weekend of G23.53 diplomacy and presidential falsehoods, you may have missed the president's latest stock market victory lap.
That leaves Trump free to grab his phone at all hours to shove and to smear and to spew falsehoods.
Singapore is planning legislation to tackle online falsehoods, and has set up a parliamentary select committee to probe the issue.
It is a dizzying array of falsehoods meant to confuse Congress and the American people, and everyone involved knows it.
"I would ask that you please not promote politically driven falsehoods that so clearly advance Russian interests," she later added.
Our spirits should surge with patriotic hope when leaders rise to answer Trump's endless falsehoods with America's time-honored truths.
But its reach is growing, and it's a back door by which viral falsehoods infiltrate our increasingly acrimonious collective conversation.
Second, Ms. Han repeats the falsehoods that have already been corrected, and ignores the corrections the Singapore government has published.
It publishes falsehoods such as denying that the Russia-backed regime in Syria used nerve gas on its own people.
It is often criticized, most notably by one of its former anchors, for allowing these commentators to spread falsehoods unchecked.
But Trump's falsehoods about his Republican approval rating do say something about the ease and shamelessness with which he lies.
These falsehoods have a cumulative effect on a president's credibility, Mr. Dallek said, particularly when they involve war and peace.
"There's no point in pretending that some journalists are anything more than peddlers of falsehoods and liberal propaganda," it continues.
"This pattern of Russian falsehoods and social media manipulation of the American electorate continued through Election Day and persists today."
That the interview looked futile — that questions can be answered with contempt, mockery and brazen falsehoods — was the entire point.
This Op-Doc is part of her forthcoming documentary feature "True Memories and Other Falsehoods" in development with Kartemquin Films.
That's because any one can edit content at any time, adding in falsehoods that can sit there until, well, someone notices.
Medical falsehoods aside, maybe the most disturbing thing about Goop is that it knows its audience, and how to manipulate it.
During the fifth primary debate, nearly every substantive answer he gave included a wildly false claim: These falsehoods often go unchallenged.
Spreading falsehoods Trump repeatedly stoked conspiracy theories during the campaign, using his social media megaphone to amplify misinformation and fake news.
One of the falsehoods of mental illness is that once you become mentally ill, it's hopeless and nothing can be done.
Public health experts blame the resurgence, at least in part, on the spread of anti-vaccine falsehoods on social media platforms.
And the judge said she was ordered to stop making the falsehoods against me, and to not contact me at all.
Falsehoods about coronavirus fall into two major categories: conspiracy theories about the origins of the illness and misinformation about miracle cures.
Good service, but they haven't been able to stop politicians from misusing facts and evidence nor to get elected on falsehoods.
Have our standards for entertainment dropped to a level where re-victimizing and creating falsehoods have become our standard for entertainment?
"Much of this unbalanced and sensationalised reporting is based on unsubstantiated allegations, exaggerations, unsupported connections and outright falsehoods," the directors said.
Does Spicer want to be the public voice of a president who often states falsehoods and never admits he is wrong?
He was in trademark form: bullish and predictably smug, spouting falsehoods about unemploy­ment, health care, and trade partnerships with glib confidence.
The President was asked about the claims again on March 22 during an interview with Time magazine about truth and falsehoods.
Some reforms to OCE are warranted, though, and reform should begin by clearing the air of falsehoods and misconceptions about OCE.
Their content, which largely sought to debunk falsehoods about President Emmanuel Macron, was the most evenly distributed across different online communities.
"Juliet Huddy's letter of intent to sue contained substantial falsehoods which both men vehemently denied," a Fox News spokesperson told Reuters.
"There's no point in pretending that some journalists are anything more than peddlers of falsehoods and liberal propaganda," the email continues.
Trump has often repeated falsehoods and promoted false conspiracies, such as the claim of widespread voter fraud during the 2016 elections.
"Much of this unbalanced and sensationalized reporting is based on unsubstantiated allegations, exaggerations, unsupported connections and outright falsehoods," the directors said.
Adults tell an average of one lie per day, and college students are guilty of telling double that number of falsehoods.
Some states do have laws banning falsehoods in political advertising, but several of these have been struck down by the courts.
Exceptions for falsehoods are already part of our libel jurisprudence, but the worrisome nature of that comment lies in its vagueness.
Many Republicans were comfortable being part of conversations such as the Birther movement, which relied on falsehoods, to score political points.
WhatsApp had a similar challenge during Brazilian elections last year, when politicians had faced claims of spreading falsehoods on the platform.
"Trump lies frequently, or tells falsehoods frequently, or stretches the truth frequently, but he also often tells the truth," Haberman said.
The officials used the opportunity, otherwise on the condition of anonymity, to accuse the press of spreading falsehoods about the policy.
Presenting falsehoods as news might seem to be a recent development, but the phenomenon has emerged several times throughout American history.
Contrary to the falsehoods propagated by H-1B opponents, these visas have a meaningful impact on wage growth for American workers.
Some would argue that Trump deserves it because of controversial rhetoric or falsehoods around X, Y, Z. Sorry, that's weak sauce.
Clinton ran their charities; investigated their family business dealings; and bluntly called out falsehoods, more of which came from Mr. Trump.
Mr. Obama seemed to take direct aim at Mr. Trump over his administration's policies and his propensity for exaggerations and falsehoods.
Industry leaders are circulating falsehoods that the industry will fail or workers will lose their tips if a minimum wage passes.
Trump continued to support his position on border security with falsehoods about immigration, as he has often done in the past.
Testimony from African-Americans on the violence perpetrated by the Ku Klux Klan, for example, was explained away as funded falsehoods.
The falsehoods of the latter are more respectable than Trump's, and perhaps defensible as a necessary evil in a dangerous world.
Such falsehoods, even if they never travel beyond a city block, play their part in eroding the credibility of the police.
He has acknowledged practicing what he calls "truthful hyperbole," and has waved away outright falsehoods, dismissing them as smart public relations.
Can we learn from it how to disseminate news that is factual, maybe even good, more rapidly than falsehoods can spread?
President Trump's handling of the coronavirus pandemic has been a case study in a management style marked by falsehoods and intimidation.
It was a period marked by meaningless deaths and falsehoods (namely that Iraq had a stockpile of weapons of mass destruction).
So if you can recall falsehoods that Presidents Barack Obama or George W. Bush told, send us an email with them.
The law grants government ministers the power to issue "correction notices" to the people or groups they claim have published falsehoods.
The former Secretary of State criticized Facebook&aposs policies on disinformation, including its controversial decision to allow falsehoods in political ads.
Zuckerberg has repeatedly said Facebook avoids banning content because it is difficult to differentiate between outright falsehoods and analysis or opinion.
Worse, many journalists said, were the falsehoods that sprang from the lips of both Mr. Trump and Mr. Spicer on Saturday.
Moreover, given his long history of falsehoods and distortions, Mr. Trump has his own credibility issues that further cloud the picture.
But he accuses the media, which points out his frequent falsehoods and flaming rhetoric, of being to blame for national divides.
Most often, that is algorithmically filtered and may deliver politically biased information, outright falsehoods or material that you have seen before.
His falsehoods are attempts to build a world in which he can feel good for an instant and comfortably deceive himself.
It has had no shortage of assignments, as falsehoods about immigrants continue to spread at even the highest levels of government.
" Timothy Parlatore, Gallagher's lawyer, said the SEALs' interviews contained falsehoods and inconsistencies that formed "a clear road map to the acquittal.
But unlike the evidence on which the impeachment is based, the bonkers barrage in the letter is based on proven falsehoods.
In that case our president has been involved once again in either delusion, falsehoods, alternative facts or flat-out lies. 2.
Trump's weekly tally of falsehoods came in at 38, the third-lowest in the nine weeks we have counted at CNN.
"I would ask that you please not promote politically driven falsehoods that so clearly advance Russian interests," Fiona Hill testified today.
Lee told The Independent that Trump appeared to be showing signs of delusion by doubling down on falsehoods and conspiracy theories.
Fact checkers report that never has a president told so many falsehoods and exaggerations, and worse, he never corrects his lies.
Fact Check WASHINGTON — The string of insults, misstatements, exaggerations and outright falsehoods emanating from the White House began just after sunrise.
His tendency to solicit, repeat, and retweet self-serving falsehoods served up by sycophants and hangers-on should be taken seriously.
Her French lawyer, Emmanuel Moyne, said the investigation was based on falsehoods and he said she had never made such remarks.
Falsehoods, exaggerations and blatant untruths But it is also possible that given his administration's history of repeated falsehoods, exaggerations and blatant untruths, on issues from the size of the inauguration crowds to claims that President Barack Obama wiretapped Trump Tower, the President may not come across as a particularly credible witness in the court of public opinion.
" The Washington Post's global opinions editor, and Khashoggi's editor, Karen Attiah, called the White House statement "juvenile, clumsy," and "full of falsehoods.
In his CNN interview, Corker assailed Trump for telling falsehoods that are easily disproven and questioned why he persisted in doing so.
Editing tweets would be an easy way for sloppy reporters to spread misinformation and sew confusion or for trolls to spread falsehoods.
Lublin said she loved BotArmy but that not all of the judges were keen on a strategy that relied on spreading falsehoods.
Your chilling portrayal of Vladimir Putin spreading falsehoods to whip up support at home and blunt any Western response was spot-on.
"It's important that legislators and politicians and anti-choice individuals, organizations, and extremists do not embrace him and his falsehoods," she said.
One of their biggest falsehoods is that there is a "Made in America Tax" that discriminates against products built in domestic factories.
Asked on NBC's "Meet the Press" why the press secretary was uttering provable falsehoods, White House senior adviser Kellyanne Conway fired back.
Reuters, citing three sources familiar with the matter, reported that Democrats want Mueller to review the testimony for evidence and possible falsehoods.
He not only spreads falsehoods but does so long after it's become clear that what he is saying is simply not true.
"Today's POTUS performance was breathtaking in the sheer number of provable falsehoods, intentional mischaracterizations and outright lies uttered," Todd wrote on Twitter.
Many Trump critics posted messages on social media urging the networks not to air an address that could be filled with falsehoods.
Here's what we don't know: Will the moderators step in when Mr. Trump delivers one of his well-known, often reiterated falsehoods?
"We know that there's a lot more to do," Facebook News Feed manager Greg Marra said when asked about the Brazil falsehoods.
There's no simple answer, but the only way people will start rejecting falsehoods being fed to them is by confronting uncomfortable truths.
When Trump speaks so many falsehoods, as the Journal states correctly that he does, there are only two explanations for this behavior.
"FB (Facebook) cannot be relied upon to filter falsehoods or protect Singapore from a false information campaign," it said in a statement.
If conservative sites and email lists have long spread falsehoods, it should also be said that liberals are not immune from misinformation.
There's nothing new or special about his use of denialism, falsehoods, and bad-faith attempts to shift blame onto his political adversaries.
Singapore, like many other countries, is trying to deal with the spread of falsehoods online, which can undermine democracy and social cohesion.
Fact-check Senators Amy Klobuchar, Steve Daines, Dianne Feinstein and others mixed facts and falsehoods in their televised talk with President Trump.
One of the most damaging falsehoods -- according to docs obtained by TMZ -- involved a pool party for show writers at Franklin's home.
Mr. Trump's own lawyers, wary of how frequently their client engages in falsehoods, are trying to hold the special counsel at bay.
The usual target of this particular strain of falsehoods is the news media, which Mr. Trump suggests purposely underestimates or misinterprets him.
They have only been used to make falsehoods appear true — and made people look like fools for taking them at their word.
The problem isn't that it's not aimed at truth, it's that it can be used to assist in the propagation of falsehoods.
" He suggested that it was his support for President Trump, not his spreading of falsehoods, that led to him being "de-platformed.
He targeted Senator Richard Blumenthal, Democrat of Connecticut, as "Da Nang Dick" for falsehoods about his military service during the Vietnam War.
Falsehoods on the service "diffused significantly farther, faster, deeper, and more broadly than the truth in all categories of information," they wrote.
" The former aide has also previously criticized the President for repeating falsehoods, saying on CNN last year that Trump "is a liar.
The result of his research was a massive tome that pointed out all the distortions and falsehoods taught in US history classes.
What Right Wing News did was part of a shift in the flow of online disinformation, falsehoods meant to mislead and inflame.
Additional misleading statements from members of the Administration, combined with intentional falsehoods pushed by these malicious actors, will only make matters worse.
But while some of those stats are spot on, others are misleading due to a lack of context — or are outright falsehoods.
His fake death notice was a sinister attempt at disinformation, which is the spreading of falsehoods with the deliberate intent to mislead.
I suspect that there is an additional, underappreciated explanation for why Mr. Trump's falsehoods have not generated more outrage among his supporters.
By seeding conspiracy theories and baseless claims on the platforms, Russians hope everyday Americans will retransmit those falsehoods from their own accounts.
The database described the players involved in influence operations, common tactics used and how the falsehoods were spread on social media platforms.
" She added, "we have encountered another secret in a presidency that has been defined by obfuscation and falsehoods... what is Trump hiding?
The bill is called the Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act, but is commonly referred to as the fake news law.
Jamal Brown, a spokesman for the Biden campaign, said it was not the campaign's responsibility alone to push back on all falsehoods.
In this case, there is no suggestion that Trump Jr. thought the Russians would feed him falsehoods about Democratic presidential hopeful Clinton.
Falsehoods may fly, but with this lie detection kit, you can better ensure your actions and beliefs remain grounded in the truth.
Not only are Trump's latest comments about turbines destroying eagle populations false, but they illustrate how impervious his falsehoods are to correction.
Twitter has consistently allowed Trump to harass people and spread falsehoods on its platform because Twitter's leadership felt his messages were newsworthy.
"The letter contains substantial falsehoods, which both men have vehemently denied," Irena Briganti, a spokeswoman for Fox News, said in a statement.
He seemed to regard his experience with a combination of guilt about having spread falsehoods and pride at doing it so skillfully.
And he delivered a pointed attack on critics who "no longer trust their fellow citizens" to sort out facts from falsehoods online.
The families are asserting that the case is about preventing harmful falsehoods from proliferating in the "post-truth" ecosystem of the internet.
He failed to aggressively press Donald J. Trump, then the Republican nominee, about his policy views or challenge him on falsehoods. Mrs.
He lied to us over and over again, then took all accusations of his falsehoods and spun them into evidence of bias.
Defamation is recognised almost everywhere as grounds for a civil claim, in which subjects of wanton and damaging falsehoods can demand financial compensation.
Back to the commentary: Hogeg posted on Facebook about his experience, saying that he wanted to address some falsehoods in the ICO space.
The man, I&aposm sorry to say, I know it sounds uncharitable, is a complete embarrassment, spewing outrageous falsehoods while offering reckless advice.
While we're scrutinizing the video, we should go beyond the facts of Bracamontes's life and note the deeper falsehoods that undergird its narrative.
J&J attorneys provided Reuters with hundreds of documents and directly responded to dozens of questions in order to correct misinformation and falsehoods.
They'll seed falsehoods across the social media landscape with an intensity and volume that will make the current state of affairs look quaint.
On Thursday alone, hundreds of racist, bigoted tweets swirled about the Muslim Congress members, along with falsehoods about their stances and personal histories.
Facebook has also come under fire for not fact-checking ads run by politicians, even when those politicians run ads that contain falsehoods.
Duca claims Trump is "gas lighting" the U.S. public by spinning any attempt to bring truth to his falsehoods as evidence of bias.
Left unsaid is the other side of that coin: a president known for a pattern of lies and falsehoods numbering in the thousands.
Ms. Herzer claimed that Mr. Dauman's statement in a November legal filing was "riddled with falsehoods" and sought permission to take his testimony.
I am accustomed to hearing malicious falsehoods about myself -- such as that old, worm-eaten chestnut that I have represented myself as indispensable.
It contains numerous falsehoods, beginning with the accusation that Hillary Clinton was the first to allege that Obama was not born in America.
The public response from Trump's team about the meeting was rife with misdirection from the beginning, including at least nine instances of falsehoods.
Fake news is a term used to describe the modern phenomenon of deliberate falsehoods or fiction masked as news circulating on the internet.
The President-elect ran a campaign that was antithetical to their party values, in addition to, they believe, consistently lying and spreading falsehoods.
Others expressed concern that Trump's repetition of falsehoods, including the size of inauguration crowds as well as voter fraud, could undermine public confidence.
And I think we&aposve got to get away from all these falsehoods and start talking about the truth and not false promises.
Jauniskis said Russia was trying to undermine citizens' trust in their own country by repeating falsehoods about it in the media and elsewhere.
Fact-checkers are often journalists who set up non-profits or work at mainstream media outlets to scour the web for viral falsehoods.
Those are a few of the falsehoods that are part of the tricks by the teachers' union and the misleadership of the NAACP.
In an interview about his use of lies and falsehoods, Trump lied a whopping 14 times (and it's not a very long interview).
How far should those protections go for media outlets that use conspiracy theories to spread damaging insinuations and falsehoods about their political opponents?
"He has stated so many falsehoods that no one can believe anything he says," Scheer told a televised news conference in Regina, Saskatchewan.
"After revising its content, the union members have decided that unfortunately this response presents a series of inconsistencies and falsehoods," the statement said.
InfoWars is vitriolic and its broadcast of blatant falsehoods has resulted in the endless harassment of American citizens, as well as death threats.
The Post found that he has recently accelerated his falsehoods to a rate of 613 per day, more than one per waking hour.
AND I THINK WE'VE GOT A GET AWAY FROM ALL OF THESE FALSEHOODS AND START TALKING ABOUT THE TRUTH AND NOT FALSE PROMISES.
And he mused about it on television, where bright lights and sparse editing ensure that millions can hear falsehoods unchallenged by fact-checking.
In fact, even as he tried to pose as a populist he repeated the same falsehoods usually used to justify anti-worker policies.
Many of the examples of fake news, cited in a Singapore government paper on deliberate online falsehoods published in January, came from abroad.
The president's relish for lies is unchanged, and live television is absolutely no match for the fury with which his falsehoods tumble forth.
Trump is a sewer spilling over of lies and falsehoods, very easily what you might call unverifiable, and I'm just speaking politely there.
And one way in which we're disconnected is that we don't hear about or respond to these falsehoods in the alt-right orbit.
He has dealt with the coronavirus, the first external crisis of his administration, by repeating a string of falsehoods rather than delivering reassurance.
Since the coronavirus outbreak, Trump and his senior aides have been deliberately misinforming the public — 28 falsehoods or dubious claims, by CNN's count.
Obviously that prohibition no longer holds on this opinion page, and major media organizations have become increasingly willing to point out raw falsehoods.
In other cases, the falsehoods appear aimed at convicting people — who may or may not have committed a crime — with trumped-up evidence.
The reporter and editor, Claas Relotius, confessed to creating the falsehoods after an investigation by the magazine, Der Spiegel said in a statement.
The World Health Organization has warned of an "infodemic" and is trying to fight rumors and falsehoods on the internet about the coronavirus.
Wilbur Ross, President Trump's commerce secretary, who oversees the Census Bureau, told blatant falsehoods when explaining why he wanted to add the question.
Zuckerberg said WhatsApp has limited the ability of people to forward digital messages, a move that has helped reduce the spread of falsehoods.
What harm is there in people hearing obvious falsehoods and specious argumentation if any sane and minimally educated person can see through them?
Bryant was charged with evidence tampering because he provided a supplement to the original report after the raid which contained falsehoods, authorities said.
The World Health Organization has partnered with tech companies, including Google, Facebook and Twitter, to combat falsehoods and misleading information about the coronavirus.
Many of the falsehoods that were written about the Fawnbrook case still appear at the top of a Google search of the city.
The first full paragraph of President Donald Trump's Time interview contains enough falsehoods to make fact-checkers around the world groan in unison.
He announced the move in what has now become characteristic fashion: With a brash and unapologetic press conference larded with falsehoods and foofaraw.
In recent weeks, Facebook and YouTube have been criticized for not removing a Trump campaign ad featuring falsehoods about Democratic frontrunner Joe Biden.
Others may recognize the claims as falsehoods but tolerate them as a side effect of an off-the-cuff rhetorical style they admire.
The toleration of lying by supporters of political leaders has been central to Trump's success in marketing provable falsehoods and an alternate reality.
The accusation is just one of several falsehoods peddled by conspiracy theorists in the wake of the Parkland shooting and other mass shootings.
Given his background, shouldn't Mr. Flynn have known that someone would be listening to his conversation and that any falsehoods would be discovered?
In another set of studies, we found that people viewed hypocrites as dishonest — more dishonest, in fact, than people who uttered outright falsehoods.
That&aposs why the company&aposs decision to not fact-check political advertising, even when the ads contain falsehoods, has been so controversial.
With accusations swirling that Mr. Izzadeen was involved in the London attack, some online voices jumped to his defense to debunk the falsehoods.
He lies repeatedly about the facts, holds public rallies to spread these falsehoods and attacks the credibility, motives and even patriotism of witnesses.
But the new White House has broken from the usual spin cycle by promoting -- sometimes repeatedly -- a series of jarring, and easily disproved falsehoods.
The case studies about online conversations about women's reproductive rights and climate science found that old tropes and falsehoods continue to drive divisive conversations.
Combined with the unprecedented volume of falsehoods distributed from the White House, the United States cannot position itself as a credible purveyor of truth.
The latest push of the false narrative came from actor and prominent conservative James Woods, who frequently uses his Twitter account to spread falsehoods.
Online falsehoods about migrants also played a significant role in the midterm elections to prop up bogus voter fraud conspiracies and make racist claims.
The press has been hit for pushing a false equivalency between the candidates, sexist treatment of Clinton and an unwillingness to confront outright falsehoods.
And so Minor's Street Sharks fibs and falsehoods became fodder for the completely deteriorated current state of the internet's collective memory of the show.
"Much of this unbalanced and sensationalized reporting is based on unsubstantiated allegations, exaggerations, unsupported connections and outright falsehoods," the directors said in the letter.
" Schiff initially referred Prince to the Justice Department and sought "prompt" action for what he described as a series of "manifest and substantial falsehoods.
" In response, Dylan Farrow denounced author Daphne Merkin's alleged 40-year friendship and "infatuation" with Allen, and said the piece contained "multiple obvious falsehoods.
We also have to support independent media and encourage solid reporting to challenge falsehoods that emanate from nameless people and places with no credibility.
No politician this side of Trump is willing to repeat so many falsehoods because their sense of shame about doing so would be overwhelming.
His particular brand of comedy equips him to defend truth against the lies, falsehoods, and untruths peddled by Trump and the right-wing media.
But it would appear that Americans are now experiencing a large surplus in falsehoods that are being stated to amplify fear and manipulate facts.
His comments on Wednesday are especially notable because Tillerson was recently fired by Trump, whose presidency has been marked by frequent falsehoods and embellishments.
"In this climate of fear, falsehoods and rising authoritarianism, just voicing your views can draw death threats," Open Society Foundations said in a statement.
"I am deeply concerned that falsehoods about illegal voting are being spread as a pretext for restricting access to the ballot box," Shaheen said.
That may mean our lies are not always deliberate, or we may rationalize our falsehoods by believing they relate only to small, insignificant matters.
As Republicans model their opinions on a leader who is not afraid to spread falsehoods, the result may be an increasingly mis-informed electorate.
"The story is replete with demonstrable and offensive falsehoods which bear no relation to reality or the truth about Ms. Swift," the letter reads.
Almost as soon as Trump left Dayton on Wednesday after visiting with victims of the shooting, he was spreading falsehoods about Whaley via Twitter.
Those falsehoods appeared in fake news articles, and Facebook did nothing to inform their users that the material in them was simply made up.
It's a world of wild falsehoods and some truth that you see only rarely in mainstream news outlets, or hear spoken among party elites.
Mr. Trump doesn't only speak outrageous falsehoods; he also voices truths outside the Overton window that have been largely ignored, especially by Republican elites.
But even more importantly for this, the Fact Checker points out that Trump repeats falsehoods dozens of times -- even after facts repute that claim.
Rightscop's letters in Canada have included falsehoods such threatening the recipient with $150,000 in liability per infringement when Canadian law caps liability at $5,000.
"This shows why we need legislation to protect us from deliberate online falsehoods," the Ministry of Law wrote in an announcement at the time.
But then he went on to try to prosecute the case against Hillary Clinton by using falsehoods that many fact-checkers have already discredited.
Amid the random topics, he managed to include multiple falsehoods about the virus, adding to the confusion in the official message to the public.
It begins with a string of falsehoods that make it difficult to tell whether the leader of the free world is lying or delusional.
In doing so, the justices rejected the laughable falsehoods that Wilbur Ross, the commerce secretary, had told to justify the addition of the question.
The Ministry of Law said the bill did not apply to "opinions, criticisms, satire or parody," only to falsehoods that threatened the public interest.
In his latest spin about federal prosecutors implicating him in felonies, President Donald Trump managed to pack three falsehoods into a mere two sentences.
For all the cynicisms and falsehoods and other greed-driven epiphenomena that surround them, the games themselves are honest and their appeal is uncomplicated.
WhatsApp, Twitter, Facebook and other platforms have taken down posts that violate the commission's rules, and developed tools to curb the spread of falsehoods.
When the truth became known, several journalists for Iranian state media, which generally toe the government's line, abruptly resigned, publicly apologizing for reporting falsehoods.
"There are those people who mistakenly think that if you simply shout falsehoods loudly, they'll become real," Ms. Tsai wrote on Facebook last week.
Unlike any other President before him, Trump has repeatedly promoted evidence-free conspiracy theories and falsehoods without regard for the consequences of his rhetoric.
We should also re-examine how we discuss whether Warren or some other challenger has the particular chops to handle Trump's falsehoods and slurs.
Only when my legal team demonstrated the depth of his falsehoods — the judge called him a "pro-Nazi polemicist" — was his reputation finally broken.
Correcting these falsehoods is critical to justice not only in the courts but in terms of preventing and responding effectively to sexual assault survivors.
And the vice president does not have the best track record when it comes to repeating falsehoods around military action in the Middle East.
The legislation being considered respects the First Amendment rights of the BDS proponents to sell prejudice and even spread malicious falsehoods if they choose.
He's told falsehoods about everything from Obama's birthplace to saying Obama didn't write his own memoir and even accused Obama of wiretapping Trump Tower.
Tech We're Using As the 2020 race heats up, here's how Matthew Rosenberg, a politics reporter, is preparing for an onslaught of intentional falsehoods.
Washington (CNN)Endangered Republican candidates are responding to health care-focused campaign attacks with falsehoods and obfuscations -- with President Donald Trump leading the charge.
And not just falsehoods, but misinformation and lies produced by people who know that they can take advantage of unknowing people because Facebook's decision.
Other falsehoods are spread by seemingly well-meaning entities — corporate accounts and misinformed individuals — who trumpet claims that turn out not to be true.
Trump can say whatever he wants to the press, and has amassed a long record of spreading blatant lies and falsehoods throughout his presidency.
As well as tackling tech companies, the Singapore committee's lengthy report also said criminal sanctions should be imposed on "perpetrators" of deliberate online falsehoods.
This was widely interpreted as a cleanup statement attempting to address some omissions, if not outright falsehoods, in Sondland's earlier testimony from October 17.
Trump frequently lashes out at CNN over the network's coverage of his administration, which he claims is biased against him and riddled with falsehoods.
The report highlighted how Trump relied on lies and falsehoods to attack the Russia probe that undermined the first two years of his presidency.
To wear the label proudly, defiantly, even if the White House and its allies threaten you and utter all kinds of falsehoods against you.
At a certain point, salacious falsehoods will no longer be as profitable and some media may lose their claim as viable sources of information.
Even Democrats without current presidential aspirations voiced alarm about Mr. Trump's penchant for falsehoods and his ability to adhere to his calls for unity.
" In a statement to PEOPLE, a Fox News spokesperson noted, "Juliet Huddy's letter of intent to sue contained substantial falsehoods which both men vehemently denied.
It's also the reason why the President unleashes graphic falsehoods on issues like abortion, as he did at a rally in Wisconsin last Saturday night.
The Trump administration's documented record of perpetrating falsehoods means it inevitably faces a higher bar for its statements on an issue as critical as Iran.
The reckless abandon with which he uses his presidential platform to pollute the public discourse with falsehoods is a brazen and aggressive use of authority.
A study that claimed to explain why falsehoods go viral — findings that were widely covered by the media — has turned out to itself be false.
The account, which claims to be a parody in its bio, spread falsehoods about the Notre Dame fire, including a fake reaction from Minnesota Rep.
"It is unacceptable, shameful and counterproductive that the media and some members of Congress have spun up falsehoods and fully misrepresented the facts," she said.
As my colleagues Matthew Rosenberg and Kevin Roose wrote, Facebook favors the angry, and increasingly the elderly — those most likely to share falsehoods on Facebook.
The answer, he snapped, was that they had behaved like "agents of influence and propaganda" and had spread "serious falsehoods" about him and his campaign.
Instead of objectivity or impartiality, The View From Somewhere advocates for a different distinction: between earnestly searching for the truth and peddling distortions and falsehoods.
Yet when these stories were shared on Facebook, nobody referred to them as hoaxes, or falsehoods, that needed to be identified and removed from circulation.
As part of that lawsuit, Herzer claimed that a declaration by Dauman about discussions with Redstone was "riddled with falsehoods" because Redstone could not speak.
As per usual, his rhetorical style was a maddening merry-go-round of half-thoughts, falsehoods, strange connections, and a complete misunderstanding of the issues.
Authoritarians of both sorts benefit from spreading falsehoods about their opponents, ginning up panics about minority groups, and undermining people's trust in the independent media.
Solutions can only be implemented, and therefore effective, if tech companies fully acknowledge their roles in maintaining and perpetuating bias, discrimination and falsehoods, he adds.
However, similar falsehoods did not prevent Ridwan Kamil, the modernising mayor of Bandung, from winning the governorship of West Java, a province of 47m people.
Your reporting appears to have been based exclusively on falsehoods pushed by opposition parties and their sympathisers for political gain ahead of the coming election.
Yet the paper finds that, on Twitter at least, the presence of bots does not seem to boost the spread of falsehoods relative to truth.
"LocationSmart will fight this lawsuit because the allegations of wrongdoing are meritless and rest on recycled falsehoods," a LocationSmart spokesperson said in an emailed statement.
Journalist Emma Best published the full WikiLeaks email on her blog, and the so-called "defamatory falsehoods" contained therein are quite a thing to behold.
" Smith added, "It is very hard to be silent when falsehoods & half-truths are said about you and there is no way to defend yourself.
Patterns of "filter bubbles" have also long been apparent, particularly on Facebook, as has the tendency for falsehoods to go viral as easily as truths.
But after surveying the media landscape in the aftermath of Clinton's surprising defeat, Media Matters decided that it would focus on exposing falsehoods circulated online.
And many of the parties responsible for falsehoods are anonymous Twitter and 4chan users, who aren't as easy to sue as a site like Infowars.
There is no one better than Conway when it comes to delivering absolute falsehoods and then wrangling her way out of it — except this time.
The social media explosion of new technology over the past decade has ironically given rumors and falsehoods an even bigger head start on the truth.
He also lied about the communications he had with his "intermediary," if he discussed his Wikileaks connection with the Trump campaign and other misleading falsehoods.
The law penalises falsehoods that would interfere with "public tranquillity" or "diminish public confidence in the performance of any duty or function of…the Government".
So much of the media focused on Donald Trump's poor preparation, lack of control and falsehoods without giving Hillary Clinton credit for an outstanding debate.
Twitter's decision comes as Facebook faces widespread criticism over its newly-confirmed policy of not fact-checking, suppressing, or removing political ads that promote falsehoods.
He speaks in incoherent sentence fragments and never resists an opportunity to brag, even when his self-adulation is based on partial or complete falsehoods.
Janet Schrader, Alexandria, Va. Several other writers proposed methods for responding to a president whose falsehoods, thus far, have been difficult to keep up with.
Possessed of a crack team of researchers, the Republican Party did not turn its resources on investigating this man's record of falsehoods and business failures.
They often can't identify the line between opinion writing that is fact based, opinion writing not based in any fact, basic news reporting and falsehoods.
According to reporting by The Washington Post and The Sacramento Bee, it's also based on a series of falsehoods spun out to demonize the Democrats.
One study published this year, led by M.I.T. researchers, found that on Twitter, falsehoods were 70 percent more likely to be retweeted than accurate news.
If platforms were to demote accounts or posts that disseminated false stories, using algorithms to weed out falsehoods, the financial incentives would presumably be reduced.
Her job for Donald Trump amounted to issuing statements and answers to journalists that sometimes turned out to be outright lies, or easily debunked falsehoods.
A lot of falsehoods were spouted during the referendum, but here we are now, and the problem is there isn't a majority for any outcome.
He is someone who flings around unconfirmed accusations and demonstrable falsehoods with abandon — and who does so, by his own admission, for calculated strategic purposes.
Mr. Trump's falsehoods about the "Access Hollywood" tape are part of his lifelong habit of attempting to create and sell his own version of reality.
Trump did not disappoint; his administration's first press event as president was an aggressive and angry assertion of falsehoods related to his inaugural crowd size.
So far, there's no evidence that a group of state-backed accounts is actively promoting any of these coronavirus-related falsehoods to the wider public.
Falsehoods about George Soros, the billionaire investor and Democratic donor, have moved from the dark corners of the internet to the center of political debate.
The likelihood that falsehoods and careless errors will be immediately exposed by swarms of social-media users has been a boon for transparency and responsibility.
Just as the repeated corrections of President Trump's falsehoods have failed to discourage him or his supporters, so too the mesmerists escaped their exposés unharmed.
While Brown wrote articles that sorted out the truth about the Fawnbrook case, Christensen was publishing commentary that castigated the people who were spreading falsehoods.
While it is vitally important to protect users' privacy, peer-to-peer technology also facilitates criminal activity, the cynical spread of falsehoods and mass manipulation.
Trump, of course, is more than aware of the duplicity he faces and has been known, by his own admission, to use his own falsehoods.
"In the course of this investigation, I would ask that you please not promote politically driven falsehoods that so clearly advance Russian interests," Hill said.
It's also worth considering this: Like his falsehoods, Trump's tweeting habit has picked up considerably since he was sworn in as president in January 2017.
Her comments come as more Democrats argue that Facebook shouldn't let President Trump, or any political candidate, get away with spreading falsehoods via political ads.
The election was rigged by partisan media, especially Fox News, which trumpeted falsehoods, then retracted them, if at all, so quietly that almost nobody heard.
Unfortunately, that also means that the more the fact-based media tries to debunk the president's falsehoods, the further it will entrench the battle lines.
"In the course of this investigation, I would ask that you please not promote politically driven falsehoods that so clearly advance Russian interests," Hill added.
Read more " _____ • Christine Emba in The Washington Post: "Affirmative action is a consistent hobbyhorse on the right because it combines real anxieties with compelling falsehoods.
Working with the big tech companies, the U.N. health agency has made strides in combating rumors and falsehoods on the internet about the new infection.
But now, of course, falsehoods spread at the speed of social media, and the internet makes it easy to take deception to the next level.
Bar-goers who were promised free drinks with every Trump tweet reacted excitedly every time Comey accused the president of falsehoods — but were ultimately disappointed.
Facebook's decision -- or, really, lack of a decision -- about its willingness to police lying in its ads ensures that falsehoods will spread on its platform.
I think some who think that do so because of my decision to use the word "lie" [in stories that refer to Trump's bolder falsehoods].
They've been criticized for not subjecting such ads to fact-checking by third parties, instead leaving it to the media and users to flag falsehoods.
A 'chilling effect' Despite the government's repeated assurances that the bill was only intended to stop the rapid spread of malicious falsehoods, critics remained unconvinced.
A Washington Post reporter, Karen Tumulty, prompted applause when she pressed Mr. Zucker on why he allowed Trump surrogates to spread falsehoods on his network.
"In the course of this investigation, I would ask that you please not promote politically driven falsehoods that so clearly advance Russian interests," she says.
" He defended the new law as giving the government the "power to hold online news sources and platforms accountable if they proliferate deliberate online falsehoods.
"I think the reality of falsehoods and hate speech and harmful content on the internet is a reality that is here to stay," he said.
His lies, his insults and his use of Twitter to communicate falsehoods are the truly important issue: They are the force destroying the public sphere.
As Horowitz has now stressed, there is a difference between starting an investigation based on mere allegations and continuing the investigation based on known falsehoods.
As a politician, Trump transferred this deceptive method into the political landscape -- call it his lie-scape -- and picked up the pace of the falsehoods.
"Trump's map flap" Per my TVEyes search, ABC's "World News Tonight" was the only broadcast nightly newscast to note and debunk Trump's falsehoods about Alabama.
There are the small falsehoods, too: Trump said 109 people were stopped for additional screening on the day his immigration executive order went into effect.
But as the frequency of his speeches and rallies increases, so too have his distortions and falsehoods, according to the Washington Post's "Fact Checker" database.
A bill, targeting "online falsehoods and manipulation," grants the governmentpowers to demand that internet "intermediaries" like Facebook block information they deem to be fake news.
"Juliet Huddy's letter of intent to sue contained substantial falsehoods which were vehemently denied by Bill O'Reilly," a Fox News spokesperson said in a statement.
Factual falsehoods and straight-up lies started when the first first caveman claimed that, yes, that handprint on the wall is mine, and it is huge.
By the time Trump used it to reverse his policy, Nielsen had been both yelled at and praised by Trump and pilloried for repeating his falsehoods.
Photo ID laws spread, becoming the most significant election administration issue of the past decade, all resting on initial falsehoods about the extent of voter fraud.
The new president has a decades-long record of refusing to back down in public battles or acknowledge that he had uttered falsehoods or outright lies.
" Trump has been called out for highlighting falsehoods and conspiracy theories during his political career and has repeatedly attacked the mainstream press as pushing "fake news.
Choosing to reject falsehoods and stick to the truth will help establish the United States as a dependable source of information among way too much disinformation.
But because they've been taken over by robots and by organizations that are trying to spread darkness and negativity and falsehoods, that's when it breaks down.
Dave's not scared to push back about the falsehoods that other rappers focus their music on, instead pushing them down and rapping about life's real problems.
The White House press corps has become used to briefing-room spin, cleanups after Trump tweets, and flat-out falsehoods about presidential fixations like crowd size.
What we're hearing is a whirlwind of gossip, of voices bearing conflicting truths and falsehoods about love affairs and scandals, independent incomes and inherited real estate.
The comments join a flurry of defiant statements and falsehoods from the President in recent days after the launch of the House impeachment inquiry last week.
"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."
I hope that those involved in fanning these flames will take a moment to contemplate what happened here today, and stop promoting these falsehoods right away.
And since children age 8 and under typically spend about 2.5 hours a day on screen time, it's no wonder these falsehoods have such an impact.
"You have to understand that in the world where people use—even the President of this country uses Twitter and creates falsehoods every day," Sendler said.
On the other hand, he notes, grassroots moral panics may be amplified by social media, "which could be the basis for disseminating falsehoods and hysteria"—a.k.a.
" Go deeper: "10 Falsehoods From Trump's Interview With The Times," by N.Y. Times' Linda Qiu: "He exaggerated the number of followers he has on social media.
One organisation, the Khatme Nubuwwat (meaning "finality of the Prophethood") exists solely to counter what it sees as the falsehoods of the Ahmadiyya; it operates freely.
Indeed, officials long insisted that the government could not rebut Mr Trump's falsehoods about Mexico because that would be to intervene in their neighbour's internal affairs.
Moreover, the problem with Trump's tweets isn't just that they often contain falsehoods, but that they are deliberate provocations with the potential to cause real conflict.
Of course, our cherished First Amendment protections also enable falsehoods, hoaxes and other forms of misinformation to spread across the country and all around the world.
Media organizations have become increasingly rigorous in policing advertisements, calling out errors and falsehoods that could prove an unwanted embarrassment for the campaign making the accusation.
"I am deeply concerned that falsehoods about illegal voting are being spread as a pretext for restricting access to the ballot box," New Hampshire Democratic Sen.
Eichenwald ultimately unveiled a white binder labeled "Tucker Carlson falsehoods," which he threatened to read on-air if the television personality would not let him speak.
Roy Blunt said Sunday that President Donald Trump's efforts to enact the agenda he campaigned on are more important than falsehoods he utters to the public.
Woodward reported that the sessions turned into a disaster, with Trump launching into a verbal assault against former FBI Director James Comey and repeating several falsehoods.
Sanders, when asked again about making falsehoods from the White House, said: "I would always advise against giving false information as a person of human decency."
This campaign, which seeks to discredit the democratic character of Spain, is so ludicrous that it needs to rely on falsehoods, half-truths and distorted facts.
Politifact will have a lot of lies to choose from this year, given the hurricane of falsehoods and broken promises on healthcare made by President Trump.
Clinton's press secretary, urged him to go after Mr. Trump, writing on Twitter that "it would be a thumb on scale" if he let falsehoods slide.
His comments about the notorious Trump Tower meeting in June of 2016, between campaign officials and the Russian attorney Natalia Veselnitskaya, have similarly devolved into falsehoods.
Mr. Lauer largely neglected to ask penetrating questions, call out falsehoods or insist on answers when it was obvious that Mr. Trump's responses had drifted off.
The Republican presidential nominee has produced more falsehoods than the major fact-checking sites have identified from a major presidential candidate since they came into existence.
Comey said that in meetings with Trump the president told a number of falsehoods, such as boasting that his inauguration crowd was the largest in history.
Clinton pointedly said she could not spend all of her time fact-checking Mr. Trump, advising viewers to go to her website to see his falsehoods.
" He also denied the country's involvement in the 28500 Sony hack and last year's global WannaCry ransomware attack, calling the charges "vicious slander" and "preposterous falsehoods.
On March 18, the Jewish Museum in Manhattan will display two portraits that were donated in the 1950s, with layers of falsehoods in the accompanying paperwork.
I hope that those involved in fanning these flames will take a moment to contemplate what happened here today and stop promoting these falsehoods right away.
Trump has amassed a record of stating falsehoods throughout the campaign — a record that has been widely picked up on and derided by longtime political observers.
He believes he is totally innocent of any wrongdoing but, in defending himself, he relies on a script built on inferences, questionable facts and outright falsehoods.
All of which comes through in Facebook's hesitation about shutting down Mr. Jones' page, despite his long record of demonstrable falsehoods that have real-world consequences.
Applying standard text-analysis tools, they found that false claims were significantly more novel than true ones — maybe not a surprise, since falsehoods are made up.
"The fact that he kept this thing going for so many years with such obvious falsehoods is, in a strange way, an accomplishment," Mr. Charleston said.
Flake also mentioned a few of Trump's own falsehoods: Some untruths are trivial, such as a bizarre contention regarding the crowd size of last year's inaugural.
The thing that Trump does is lie, and whether we call the lies "lies" or "demonstrable falsehoods" is ultimately not that important either politically or journalistically.
We review how President Trump bent the truth this year by repeating and inflating falsehoods, shifting his statements, embellishing or omitting details, and offering misleading attacks.
Chinese officials appeared to have relied on borrowing falsehoods pushed by anti-American organizations cultivated by the Kremlin that already have an audience in Western countries.
In the lengthy piece, Trump repeated several falsehoods, including those about alleged wiretaps on Trump Tower, the millions of people he said voted illegally, and Sen.
Every word candidates utter is being parsed for falsehoods like never before by armies of media fact checkers conscripted to meet the challenges posed by Trump.
Individual networks can refuse ads for containing falsehoods, as CNN recently did, without the same backlash over bias that an entity as powerful as Facebook receives.
But that hasn't stopped the president from trying, as he so often does, to commandeer the machinery of the federal government to justify his own falsehoods.
But they were motivated by truth and did what they could, responding to the fire hose of falsehoods, calling them out, one lie at a time.
But the substantive similarities — the fights for access, the falsehoods from politicians, the triumphs and challenges of campaign reporting from the road — are striking, and timely.
Daniel Dale, the Washington correspondent for The Toronto Star, has conducted a running fact-check of Trump's time in office, documenting thousands of the president's falsehoods.
And if, in fact, you do not tell the truth, and those falsehoods were designed to injure or harm a business, there's a consequence for that.
One particular concern is that the latest round of falsehoods about health care, combined with the defamation of the C.B.O., may be gaining some political traction.
Trump closes 2019 with more falsehoods Trump made 90 false claims during the final two weeks of 2019, including a new barrage of dishonesty around impeachment.
The Israeli statement was "full of inaccuracies and falsehoods," Benjamin J. Rhodes, a deputy national security adviser to Mr. Obama, told reporters on a conference call.
Yet the costliest presidential falsehoods and delusions are not the ones that people are talking about, such as those concerning the inauguration crowd or electoral fraud.
Pakistan's government has tried to counter those falsehoods with public education campaigns, recruiting Muslim religious leaders to reassure people that the vaccine only protects their children.
That has been the case during elections in the United States, Europe and elsewhere, as governments and voters have faced a flood of misconceptions and falsehoods.
"  The talking points said the president's actions during the call were "entirely proper" and the press has "given currency to flat-out falsehoods about the call.
The Democratic candidate will have to survive an onslaught of divisive videos, memes and stories as well as outright falsehoods circulating in the online public square.
And if they do work, what are the long-term costs to government credibility from tactical "wins" that are achieved through the aggressive use of falsehoods?
Some journalists worry that handing Mr. Trump a chunk of network prime time could allow the president to assert falsehoods to tens of millions of viewers.
Should I carefully focus on my positive experience working with my old colleague or am I obligated to point out the key falsehoods in his résumé?
Naming the myth alongside the reality seems like a good way to compare the fact and falsehoods side by side so that the truth will emerge.
When everyone agrees the cover is factually wrong the elite media can have a better sense why so many Americans are sick of the dishonesty and falsehoods.
" The details supporting that claim were blacked out, according to the New York Times, and Snowden later said on Twitter the report was riddled with "obvious falsehoods.
The speech was also included several falsehoods and misleading claims, including about the amount of disaster relief funding the federal government has already delivered to the region.
Facebook's chief AI scientist turned many heads when, in the aftermath of the 2016 U.S. election, he noted that it was technically possible to stop viral falsehoods.
One particularly controversial case involved a campaign ad for President Donald Trump that contained falsehoods about the Democratic presidential contender Joe Biden, which Facebook refused to remove.
"Falsehoods were 70 percent more likely to be retweeted than the truth," the researchers wrote, in a paper to be published in the journal Science on Friday.
Sometimes, these falsehoods multiplied through attempts at damage control, and the President and his staff spread them on Twitter, in interviews and in official White House statements.
Nor do they acknowledge that social media are hardly the originators of unfounded rumors, viral falsehoods, and conspiracy theories, which have sparked wars and pogroms for centuries.
Trump's falsehoods In a repeat of the first debate, Trump repeatedly made inaccurate claims, and Clinton directed viewers to her website for a real-time fact check.
The simple fact is that Republican leaders more often traffic in falsehoods than Democratic leaders do — climate change denial, birtherism, suggesting voter fraud is rampant, and more.
And actually, what sets To All The Boys I've Loved Before apart is how it actively deconstructs the falsehoods of romantic ideals peddled by most rom-coms.
This included paying several thousand dollars to civil society to help organize training sessions for journalists to spot falsehoods online, representatives from two groups involved told Reuters.
Snopes has made its business out of correcting the misunderstood satire, malicious falsehoods, and poorly informed gossip that echoes across the internet — and that business is booming.
In recent months, we've seen what's possible when people come together to resist bullying, hate, falsehoods, and divisiveness, and stand up for a fairer, more inclusive America.
Rubio is taking a similar tack in South Carolina, accusing his Senate colleague of spreading falsehoods about his record on everything from same-sex marriage to immigration.
And what message is powerful enough to take on the firehose of falsehoods that Russia is deploying in targeted, effective ways across a range of new media?
"It's no surprise that Trump's team will lash out with falsehoods to distract from their failure, as they have the entire time," said Cruz spokeswoman Alice Stewart.
That was most clearly demonstrated recently when industry lobbyists circulated all manner of falsehoods to scuttle a California broadband privacy proposal backed by the Electronic Freedom Foundation.
The outrage stemmed from fear that Stephens, a known denier of climate science, would attempt to spread dangerous falsehoods about climate change in the paper of record.
"It is unacceptable, shameful and counterproductive that the media and some members of Congress have spun falsehoods and fully misrepresented the facts," DeVos said in a statement.
It was flooded with falsehoods and conspiracy theories ahead of the October election in Brazil, raising concerns that it was being used to distort the political debate.
Unlike most politicians who will apologize when proven wrong -- or, at the least, not keep repeating the same falsehoods -- Trump seems to revel in doing just that.
"  Obama also called for meaningful immigration reform, and in a veiled shot at Trump, said leaders must push back against "bluster, falsehoods and promises of higher walls.
It meant that the press was seen calling him out for falsehoods more than it was seen calling out Hillary Clinton, who fibbed less (but did aplenty).
According to the Post's Fact Checker, there are more than 60 falsehoods that Trump has repeated at least three times during his first year as president. Sixty!
Even if those feelings are misguided, based on falsehoods, fickle, or fleeting, the opportunity to be counted is strongly valued and has a revered place in America.
By "civility," what is often meant is that you should take your political opponent's concerns seriously, even when those concerns are built upon falsehoods and harmful stereotypes.
By The New York Times' count, Trump has told nearly six times as many falsehoods in 10 months than Barack Obama told in eight years as President.
A study by researchers from M.I.T. that was published in March found that falsehoods on Twitter were 70 percent more likely to be retweeted than accurate news.
Millions of phony social media profiles pose specifically as actors, singers, politicians and other well-known figures to broadcast falsehoods, cheat people out of money — or worse.
He shows in interviews with military and government officials there how easy it was to use the site to spread falsehoods and stoke anger against the Rohingya.
More than ever the Foundation for Defense of Democracies seems like the Pentagon's Office of Special Plans that pushed falsehoods in support of waging war with Iraq.
It relies heavily on users to report inappropriate posts and on third-party partners to assess falsehoods, which means only some of the offending material is caught.
A kakistocracy, emboldened with blameless impunity for its falsehoods, eclipses even the smallest shreds of hope, and it does it even better, more seamlessly, when it's ugly.
Concerned about his penchant for falsehoods and whether he might perjure himself, the president's lawyers persuaded the special counsel team to accept written answers to their questions.
Some eating-related myths, misconceptions, and inaccuracies have been passed down through the ages, though the internet age has given rise to puzzling new falsehoods and diversions.
He dismisses journalists who point out his falsehoods as nit-pickers who do not understand that he is speaking a larger truth that resonates with many Americans.
The letter asked the company to stop monetizing videos that promote falsehoods and "take steps to correct the record" for those who've been exposed to climate misinformation.
Democrats have criticized Facebook over both targeting and its decision not to fact check political ads, because they think it has helped the Trump campaign spread falsehoods.
Mr. Trump constantly lies, and his actions inspire a culture of falsehoods and extortion and grab-what-you-can at the highest levels of our federal government.
In the address, which drew strong rebukes from Democrats and civil rights leaders, Mr. Zuckerberg argued that even falsehoods from a politician were important for public discourse.
Some who cast a hedged, qualified vote for Mr. Trump say they are frustrated with his temperament and repeated falsehoods and would consider supporting a primary challenger.
Still, Parnas apologized for the way he treated Yovanovitch, saying the campaign to fire and discredit her — assertions that she was badmouthing Trump — was built on falsehoods.
His biggest complaints involve the President's attacks on the media, his track record of telling falsehoods and what Flake describes as "dysfunctional" leadership from the White House.
It became clear during the end of the 2016 election, that this is also why Trump's many exaggerations and outright falsehoods are judged by a different standard.
When you see a link to a story that contains blatant falsehoods, click or tap the gray menu arrow in the top-right corner of the post.
As president, Mr. Trump has questioned his own intelligence agencies and peddled repeated falsehoods, a record that could undermine the administration's credibility on the highly delicate subject.
We already know something about the Russians' use of Facebook and other social media to manipulate facts, spread falsehoods and whip discrete populations into division and anger.
As reported in "Pinterest Restricts Vaccine Search Results to Curb Spread of Misinformation," social media platforms have recently been "infiltrated" with these vaccine falsehoods, presented as truths.
In the marketplace of competing ideas, I assumed, falsehoods would be exposed and truth would prevail, and the news media were the vital instrument in this regard.
The suspension comes after Loomer tweeted a series of anti-Muslim falsehoods about Ilhan Omar, a Somali refugee who is one of two Muslim women elected to Congress.
"Contrary to her latest defamatory press statement, the evidence, including sworn testimony, will show the full extent and scope of the scurrilous falsehoods Kesha spread," the statement read.
But now he is President Trump, and his breezy spewing of falsehoods has become a national embarrassment --a threat to U.S. security and America's standing in the world.
"The report reveals that Mr. Prince's testimony before the committee was replete with manifest and substantial falsehoods that materially impaired the committee's investigation," Schiff wrote in the letter.
"We wanted the story to get out," the chairman said, claiming, perplexingly, that the IG report "vindicated" his office by placing full responsibility for the falsehoods on Bray.
The CNN anchor said that instead of being able to focus solely on policy, the media was spending time sorting through attacks and falsehoods from the White House.
This means that Facebook has put itself in a position where it needs to regulate speech unless it wants to be a venue for falsehoods to spread uncontrollably.
Anonymous posts of the Kremlin's design or those generated by the target audiences power smear campaigns and falsehoods that tarnish confidence in America and trust in democratic institutions.
On Sunday, when his team was still crunching the numbers, Kessler told me "we counted 45 misstatements or falsehoods in his interview with Sean Hannity" the other day.
As the Associated Press reports, the White House is "scrambling" to find ways to discredit Comey, whose testimony is expected to contradict major falsehoods peddled by the president.
Trump's repudiation by FBI Director James Comey in a sensational hearing Monday came exactly two months into an administration unusually prone to obfuscation, blurring facts and peddling falsehoods.
The White House said that the book contains "several falsehoods," and Axios has reported that several of his assertions are wrong, sloppy, and betray off-the-record confidence.
Worse, the specifics of the strategy are a path to more electoral failure, because "A Better Deal" embraces falsehoods about economic power while leaving a bankrupt system unchallenged.
The blizzard of falsehoods suggests that Trump anticipates Mueller's testimony and its aftermath won't be good for him, so he's doing his best to do some preemptive gaslighting.
"There are so many outstanding questions that we need truthful answers to today, because so far, we've only gotten half-truths, misleading answers, or outright falsehoods," said Rep.
Without ever having to account for any of his falsehoods on his immigration claims, these voters focused on the issue of immigration, helping deliver him the White House.
As a result, what does it matter what he says in his speech if it is filled with the typical falsehoods and bogus claims Trump touts so often?
For others, it's a no-brainer in the other direction: This particular president is so prone to falsehoods and fear-mongering that his speeches shouldn't be shown live.
One particular source of controversy was a campaign ad for President Donald Trump that contained falsehoods about the Democratic frontrunner Joe Biden, which Facebook refused to take down.
The specifics Trump cited will trigger the customary stampede of fact checkers, now well-trained to refute the barrage of hyperbole and falsehoods we hear regularly from Trump.
"To the extent that there are witness statements that the [special counsel] contends demonstrate Mr. Manafort's intentional falsehoods, these should be produced to the Defense," the lawyers wrote.
Independent fact checkers and social media experts say that has not been enough to stop a flood of falsehoods and conspiracy theories distorting political debate without public oversight.
He can litter the campaign trail with hundreds of easily debunked falsehoods because conservative media has spent more than two decades tearing down the idea of objective fact.
"This was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration — period — both in person and around the globe," Spicer lectured reporters in a speech that included several falsehoods.
When the fact-check website PolitiFact was ready to choose its "lie of the year" for 2015, it found that the only real contenders were falsehoods by Trump.
I wanted to let Trump know that many Latinos and other immigrants were offended by his racist comments and that his own immigration proposals were based on falsehoods.
A few falsehoods still slipped through, most notably when the president shifted to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the agency caught in the outcry over Mr. Trump's immigration crackdown.
"The White House is using government taxpayer resources to target a senator with complete and utter falsehoods," Lily Adams, the communications director for Ms. Harris, said on Twitter.
But the idea of letting falsehoods and lies go unchallenged for the sake of public relations goes against the average reporter's reason for getting up in the morning.
Democrats are urging the companies to be more aggressive in limiting falsehoods shared by the president and his allies, while conservatives warn the companies against limiting free speech.
But over the years, he did all he could to quiet the calls for justice with ever more falsehoods and denials of knowledge about who was to blame.
Relatives of the victims have received death threats from those who embrace the falsehoods Mr. Jones has propagated on his website Infowars, which has an audience of millions.
Pelosi was fired up in the meeting, the sources said, and she told her members that the speech was "a disgrace" for having so many falsehoods in it.
"The report reveals that Mr. Prince's testimony before the committee was replete with manifest and substantial falsehoods that materially impaired the committee's investigation," Schiff wrote at the time.
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President Trump has made many more false statements than any of his modern predecessors, and only some of his falsehoods pass the test of not being self-serving.
The senator, Luis R. Sepúlveda, chose to confront the allegations with his Democratic colleagues on Wednesday, telling them in a private conference that the accusations were complete falsehoods.
Mr. Ciattarelli, a state assemblyman, challenged the Guadagno campaign's integrity, accusing his opponent, the lieutenant governor, of promoting falsehoods about his record and of lying about her own.
"I'm skeptical of everything about it because I know it's been sold on the basis of falsehoods," said Mr. Gruber, who is running on the Independence Party line.
In an interview with Mehdi Hasan, columnist at The Intercept, Moore stopped just short of calling the president a liar, but did say Trump hurts himself with falsehoods.
Trump regularly spreads falsehoods about the transatlantic alliance and questions its usefulness, but none of that heated rhetoric made its way into his State of the Union tonight.
When introducing the Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act (POFMA) earlier this year, the Singaporean government said it was necessary to stop dangerous disinformation and hateful content.
The White House did not immediately respond to Manigault Newman's claims, but late last week Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee-Sanders blasted the upcoming tome as peppered with falsehoods.
But overseas, where America's allies and enemies parse a president's every word for signs of threat or reassurance, Mr. Trump's falsehoods have prompted a different kind of alarm.
With President Trump's administration embroiled in debates over blatant falsehoods, "alternative facts," and "fake news," Mr. Nye's fans are saying the timing of this show couldn't be better.
More than simply embarrassing themselves by spouting obvious falsehoods, though, Fox News' incendiary, fanatical rants serve to delegitimize to its viewers the very idea of a political opposition.
The SDP said it had complied but would appeal the order, the most severe since the Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act came into effect in October.
One problem Google faces is that a lot of fake news amounts to selective quoting, improper emphasis or assertions that are hard to disprove, instead of outright falsehoods.
Much like other moments in his presidency, Trump was also accused of including exaggerated details and falsehoods in his version of events surrounding the special operation in Syria.
In a freewheeling 53-minute interview on Friday morning on Fox News, President Trump rattled off exaggerations, falsehoods and debunked conspiracy theories, often related to the impeachment inquiry.
From this contradiction, the number of apparently true statements "explodes" — anything can be inferred as true — through an endless chain of falsehoods emanating from that one false statement.
For anyone who doesn't remember, Kellyanne Conway introduced it in early 2017 to defend the White House's falsehoods about attendance numbers at Donald Trump's inauguration the week before.
Rather, Mr. Trump, Fox News and Republicans in Congress seem to be actively using falsehoods to prepare an assault on the institutions that allow American democracy to function.
The trump presidency Reporters from The New York Times checked the facts, falsehoods and statements in need of context from President Trump's first State of the Union address.
America can't entrust its future to someone who thinks "All I know is what's on the internet" is a sufficient response to repeating falsehoods for the umpteenth time.
Much has been written about how missteps, gaffes, and outright falsehoods peddled by Trump that would long ago have toppled other politicians seem to bounce off of him.
Fortunately for him, the election summoned forth the energies of countless alt-right websites in the US, which manufactured white-label falsehoods disguised as news on an industrial scale.
But stepping back from the specific falsehoods, the entire idea that Saudi purchases of US-made defense equipment represent some kind of favor to the United States is nonsensical.
It's here, in a long, wood-paneled room, that David Mikkelson works to keep the Internet safe from urban legends, falsehoods and lies with his myth-busting website, Snopes.com.
The president and present administration, including DHS head Kristjen Nielsen, have attempted to shift the blame with falsehoods, or argue that the inhuman practice is simply enforcing the law.
MIT researchers also looked at tweets from the Boston Marathon bombing and found that facts took six times as long to reach 1,500 people as it does for falsehoods.
Facebook has defended its policy in part by noting that broadcasters are required by law to run TV ads from candidates, no matter what falsehoods those ads may contain.
We all agree that politicians shouldn't base their campaigns on falsehoods, because the norm that campaigns should be at least somewhat rooted in reality makes for better public policy.
" Without mentioning Trump or the current administration explicitly, Onward Together's mission touches on the Women's March, immigration ban rallies and efforts to fight against "bullying, hate, falsehoods, and divisiveness.
In a democracy — government by the people and for the people — it is now "highly inappropriate" to tell the truth about a Chief of Staff who tells confirmed falsehoods?
The event's urgency derives from the fact that national politics are on fire, with a president who lies constantly and a social media ecosystem still awash in viral falsehoods.
It has also been accused of fueling damaging political fakes during elections in Brazil last year, with Reuters reporting that the platform was flooded with falsehoods and conspiracy theories.
" 'I tend to be right' Presented with a litany of other falsehoods and mischaracterizations, Trump offered this nonchalant rebuttal to his critics: "What am I going to tell you?
And in some cases, those rumors and falsehoods were seemingly fabricated by individuals or groups connected to the alt-right, with the specific intention of destabilizing their political opponents.
Yet in an administration characterized by equivocation and outright falsehoods, it's not that surprising to hear that it's hoping people ignore a statement that's literally printed on a jacket.
" Summing it up: "The Mr. Trump's falsehoods about the 'Access Hollywood' tape are part of his lifelong habit of attempting to create and sell his own version of reality.
Our public officials cannot be in the business of pushing falsehoods and then using their salience with the public to justify laws that limit citizens' access to the polls.
In the last two weeks, one facet of this debate has been the extent to which platforms like Facebook allow politicians to spread deliberate falsehoods through paid political advertising.
Trump supporters often view fact-checking of their President and journalists who point out his falsehoods as symptomatic of a media that they see as irretrievably biased against Trump.
Focus groups show that most voters don't care about Russia, but what they don't like is the president tweeting falsehoods and the general chaos that he creates every day.
In a Monday interview with Times reporters Glenn Thrush and Dave Itzkoff, Spicer admitted that he regretted at least one of the falsehoods that he pushed about the president.
Mr. Trump's comment sounded like an off-the-cuff line, and he has been known to float falsehoods frequently in his stump speech, often in riffs of his own.
Of course, nobody should be surprised to see Mr. Trump confidently asserting things that are flatly untrue, since he does that all the time — and never corrects his falsehoods.
Agua Zarca, "publishes irresponsible statements and falsehoods," she said, directing CNN to the last page of the 92-page report where the names of funders and acknowledgments are listed.
Exposure of specific falsehoods concerning the Daniels case scandalized even Trump-friendly quarters of the political world, drawing condemnations from Fox News and The Wall Street Journal editorial page.
Aides to Mr. Trump, who has faced criticism throughout the race for factual exaggerations and outright falsehoods, circulated a copy of the speech with 128 footnotes documenting its claims.
All I can say is that it was a tremendous gift to have a break from "Trump," to have a vacation from the dizzying maelstrom of accusations and falsehoods.
Work to get manufacturers to up that "one-tenth of one percent" figure instead of wasting time repeating the same myths and falsehoods over and over and over again.
With such a flurry of falsehoods, it's worth taking a look back to see who went big in the year that public trust in tech really started to tank.
It was the year the public saw the White House enshrine alternative facts in the American lexicon as justification for what used to be simply called old fashioned falsehoods.
A spokesman for United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement has resigned, saying that he could no longer "bear the burden" of spreading falsehoods on behalf of the Trump administration.
Rather than crumbling, though, their falsehoods have continued to spread and grow — and they've taken root in the media ecosystem in which the president chooses to spend his days.
I'm an executive producer in television, and it makes me want to stay home all day and play whack-a-mole — somehow, some way — to fight against the falsehoods.
An article on Friday about exaggerations and falsehoods that President Trump stated during a recent rally in Iowa misstated the value of a proposed arms deal with Saudi Arabia.
And a study by two Yale professors found that Republicans were much more likely to trust hyperpartisan media outlets and news sites that peddle outright falsehoods than are Democrats.
Facebook should not be allowed to play host to malicious falsehoods or other forms of political skullduggery any more than CNN or the New York Times is allowed to.
But after the election of Mr. Trump, with his frequent complaints about "fake news" and propensity to trade in demonstrable falsehoods, the New York production is swimming in relevance.
In shattering those falsehoods, this verdict could create a seismic shift in how we should hold perpetrators accountable for sexual assault offenses, despite their standing or station in life.
Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump, whose time in office has been defined in large part by his frequent falsehoods and misleading statements, claimed Wednesday he tries to be truthful.

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