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falsehood

[fawls-hood] / ˈfɔls hʊd /


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Rather than respond to every claim, Logan says his office picks its battles, intervening only when a falsehood appears likely to reach a wide audience.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026

The pitch is that better tools would enable us to separate fact from falsehood more efficiently.

From Salon ● Apr. 23, 2026

Iran's Revolutionary Guards also said that no US Navy vessel has "dared" approach the Strait of Hormuz, calling Wright's claim a "pure falsehood."

From Barron's ● Mar. 10, 2026

In a joint statement with local government officials on Monday, Kaduna state police commissioner Alhaji Muhammad Rabiu described the information as "mere falsehood which is being peddled by conflict entrepreneurs who want to cause chaos".

From BBC ● Jan. 20, 2026

It’s like trying to imagine any falsehood: that the sun revolves around the earth; that humans can fly; that the world is nonviolent.

From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti

Generative AI systems are known for their ability to "hallucinate" and assert falsehoods as fact, even sometimes invent sources for inaccurate information.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026

"The Community Notes program alone is simply not adequate when it comes to reducing the impact of harmful falsehoods on social media platforms," said Angie Drobnic Holan, director of the International Fact-Checking Network.

From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026

But investors can sue over “material” falsehoods and omissions, and they often do.

From Slate ● Sep. 1, 2026

Frances Stonor Saunders’s “The Cultural Cold War” moves beyond outright falsehoods and forgeries to reveal how the Central Intelligence Agency secretly supported a wide-ranging collection of artists and intellectuals between 1947 and 1967.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

“The work of Military Intelligence, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Atomic Energy Commission—all, at one time or another have felt the effect of his falsehoods, evasions, and misrepresentations,” Strauss wrote.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik




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