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The law, which opponents say was built around misinformation about gender-affirming care, prompted some transgender residents to flee the state and medical professionals to stop providing care.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
11 July 2025 -
Despite the misinformation and anti-science rhetoric that often overwhelms social media after disasters like this, a majority of people—63 percent in Texas and across the U.S.—are already concerned about climate change.—
Katharine Hayhoe,
Time,
10 July 2025
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Then again, no UN official has ever been condemned for Holocaust distortion and antisemitism by France, Germany, Canada, and both Democratic and Republican US administrations.—
Jasmine Baehr,
FOXNews.com,
9 July 2025
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If that data is biased, flawed or maliciously manipulated, the models will faithfully reproduce those distortions at scale—often without obvious warning.—
Wendy Chin,
Forbes.com,
7 July 2025
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The hinge-less part may have been an exaggeration, for someone who’s likely as much of a control freak as Halsey.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
9 July 2025
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Pew’s findings confirm one of Trump’s most remarkable accomplishments — one so unlikely that professional Latinos long dismissed his election gains as exaggerations.—
Gustavo Arellano,
Los Angeles Times,
2 July 2025
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Basing a political movement on lies and conspiracy theories is inevitably going to come back to haunt you.—
Bill Goodykoontz,
AZCentral.com,
14 July 2025
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The misinformation, and sometimes blatant lies, being spread around the country could result in someone stepping into a federal operation and suddenly finding themselves face-to-face with a killer who has nothing to lose.—
Billal Rahman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 July 2025
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One of the company's meteorologists, Jonathan Belles, debunked some of the most common falsehoods surrounding severe storms, recommending tips on how to best prepare for them.—
Katie Wiseman,
The Courier-Journal,
2 July 2025
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The fact that the development and rollout follow Trump's falsehoods about widespread noncitizen voting makes election experts wary of how this new tool will work.—
Miles Parks,
NPR,
28 June 2025
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This does not necessarily mean untruths or factual errors.—
Nisha Talagala,
Forbes.com,
30 June 2025
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The basic essentials of your life – electricity, food and water – must be in place to afford the privilege of propagating or believing untruths.—
Nick Paton Walsh,
CNN,
28 Feb. 2025
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In Arizona, the Taiwan company is developing six semiconductor fabrication plants, Chron reports.—
Alexis Simmerman,
Austin American Statesman,
2 July 2025
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The Polish chronicler Ryszard Kapuściński tried to do for the age of decolonization what Malaparte did for the Second World War, though without winning the same indulgence for fabrication.—
Thomas Meaney,
New Yorker,
2 July 2025
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Hugo would likely have been repelled and fascinated by Trump’s demagoguery, his rambling mendacity, his grammatically illogical but easy-to-follow oratory.—
Graham Robb,
The Atlantic,
9 June 2025
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By promoting dissimulation and sanctifying mendacity, Trump’s tsarist regime works to silence knowledge.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
8 Apr. 2025
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“Misrepresentation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/misrepresentation. Accessed 20 Jul. 2025.
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