distortion

He didn’t sense the initial fallout was “a big problem,” rather a “distortion on the part of some of the right-wing media networks,” he said.

The commission could temporarily suspend its preferential tariff rates if it decides there is a distortion hurting the EU market.

Still, the point is made: Truth is a malleable thing, prone to erasure and distortion, yet we need it more than ever.

But acknowledging its patterns helps citizens and journalists resist its distortions.

“They’re completely misrepresenting the work of the FCC and what we’ve been doing,” he said during a conference in New York, accusing Democrats of engaging in a “campaign of projection and distortion.”