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Noun
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There’s been some controversy and misinformation about hormone therapy over the last two decades; because of this, many women may not get guidance from their doctors on it.—
Erica Sweeney,
SELF,
21 Mar. 2025 -
But at a time when misinformation spreads rapidly and media credibility is under siege, news organizations must take deliberate steps to reinforce their value.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
21 Mar. 2025
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An Invisible Risk The standard literature defines cognitive bias as a systematic distortion that affects decision making processes and cognitive understanding, often resulting from limited data sets and unconscious biases and decision protocols favoring certain viewpoints.—
Cristian Randieri,
Forbes,
14 Mar. 2025
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Omitting such differences, however, can sometimes be decisive in invalidating the final evaluation, which can lead to systematic distortions in reasoning, influencing the resulting judgments and decisions.—
Cristian Randieri,
Forbes,
14 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Add to that the need to build factories and fabrication plants for microchips.—
Damon Beres,
The Atlantic,
8 Apr. 2025
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Instead, each case involved egregious misconduct, including the wholesale fabrication of news stories.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
7 Apr. 2025
Noun
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An outside investigation tied a Union County elected official to a controversial social media account accused of spreading lies.—
Mary Ramsey,
Charlotte Observer,
9 Apr. 2025
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Over the course of the game, hosted by the charming Peter Serafinowicz (The Tick), the cash changed hands a few times, lies were told, innocent people were voted out, and tears were shed.—
Jillian Sederholm,
EW.com,
9 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Oh, maybe in millions of movie trailers during the last 40 years (an exaggeration but barely).—
Tim Greiving,
Los Angeles Times,
12 Mar. 2025
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That’s only a slight exaggeration.—
John Fund,
National Review,
2 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Many of the most outrageous falsehoods were aimed at Bolsonaro’s opponent, Fernando Haddad.—
Jon Lee Anderson,
New Yorker,
7 Apr. 2025
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There can be lots of falsehoods that the AI assumes to be utterly true.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
3 Apr. 2025
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“Falsification.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/falsification. Accessed 19 Apr. 2025.
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