unsubstantiated

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"Unsubstantiated", "highly defamatory", and a "fishing expedition", the company says of the potential evidence.

From BBC • Mar. 31, 2023

Unsubstantiated rumors and outright falsehoods spread widely in immigrant communities ahead of the presidential election in 2020.

From New York Times • Oct. 12, 2022

Unsubstantiated conspiracy theories have run rampant in the week following Epstein's death, and speculation has often filled in for fact while the public awaits the official results of Epstein's autopsy.

From Fox News • Aug. 15, 2019

Unsubstantiated claims that vaccines like MMR were associated with autism, multiple sclerosis, Crohn’s disease, etc., etc., and ill-informed celebrities have wreaked havoc with vaccination programs.

From Washington Post • Feb. 15, 2019

Unsubstantiated and bungled raids on young hackers and their families turned law enforcement into the Keystone Cops of cyberspace and the US Justice Department into a sworn enemy of the shareware community's most valuable members.

From Open Source Democracy by Rushkoff, Douglas