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The technology might still eliminate jobs, manipulate or mislead users, or automate away forms of expression that used to be exclusively human.

From Slate ● Sep. 9, 2026

“The passage of Senate Bill 1159 is an important step to clarify the law and discourage the use of emerging technologies to falsify public records and mislead regulators in California,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

Cook’s lawyer, Abbe Lowell, rejected those allegations, writing Wednesday that her financing applications were aboveboard and made no attempt to mislead lenders.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

"There's a long history of strategies to mislead anybody who might be trying to harm the president."

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026

“Are you going to tell her the other reason you were on the run, or will you mislead her on that too?”

From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas

One major reason is fraud, where one party intentionally misleads the other before the agreement is signed, causing the other party to enter the contract based on false information.

From MarketWatch ● May 20, 2026

“Attempting to classify foods as unhealthy simply because they are processed, or demonizing food by ignoring its full nutrient content, misleads consumers,” Gallo said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 2, 2025

Elon Musk, who founded xAI, opposes OpenAI’s restructuring plan because he believes it veers away from the company’s founding principles and misleads investors.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 2, 2025

It also misleads military patients by referring them to me even after Tricare has acknowledged that I’m unable to take more of them.

From Salon ● Aug. 22, 2024

And, according to Grose’s “Provincial Glossary,” in Hampshire they give the name of Colt-pixey to a supposed spirit or fairy, which, in the shape of a horse, neighs, and misleads horses into bogs.

From Folk-lore of Shakespeare by Thomas Firminger Thiselton-Dyer

Callaghan “had no idea it had anything to do with crypto, he was completely misled by Hunter Biden,” Mitchell Jackson, a representative for Callaghan and other popular social-media figures, told MarketWatch.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 9, 2026

In a statement to the BBC, Amazon "strongly disagrees" with the premise that it misled advertisers and called the suit "misguided."

From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026

The suit alleged the company had misled the public about the safety of its platforms and hooked kids on its apps.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026

The settlement would resolve a multistate lawsuit that alleged Meta designed and deployed addictive features that harmed young people and misled the public about the potential dangers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

Hooke’s imagery is misleading—and he was misled by it.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

“The Government’s broader counter-disinformation work is focused on identifying coordinated attempts to spread false or misleading information online, not individuals,” it said in a statement.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

More than three-quarters of Americans — including 79% of Democrats, 76% of Republicans and 75% of independents — said they were “concerned that misleading audio or video ‘deepfakes’ created using AI will impact” the midterms.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026

Several leading track and field athletes competing at the Ultimate Championship in Budapest last weekend expressed their consternation at Sweeney's commercial, saying it was a misleading representation of how women in sport looked.

From Barron's ● Sep. 14, 2026

The government also said giving students long-term predictions of how much they might ultimately repay risked being "misleading" because of "limited" accuracy.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026

The term was certainly widely used in the late seventeenth century, but it is more misleading than helpful.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton