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Studies have shown that fact-checking can help curb the spread of misinformation and help users identify false narratives.
From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026
The law says the state Attorney General can bring an action if she believes a person “has engaged or is about to engage in the false impersonation of an employee organization.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
Unless you go through it, it can be difficult to understand how destabilizing a false positive can be.
From Slate ● Sep. 9, 2026
She also admitted in her plea deal to filing a false tax form in 2024 and lying to FBI agents that same year.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
Dr. Lee assumed the audience would easily understand that the spirit sounds were false.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
Almost everything that happens afterward feels even falser than the onion.
From New York Times ● Jun. 27, 2017
He tones down his own mugging from Zoolander this time out, retreating to a more familiar reasonable-and-rational act that makes Stiller's much more exaggerated performance look even falser by contrast.
From The Verge ● Feb. 11, 2016
The movie's involved story, full of false leads and falser dialogue, manages the difficult trick of getting more preposterous as it goes along.
From Time Magazine Archive
For the new Writers, building on their ground, thinking them true, add to them, and invent, and draw other Experiments from them, that are falser then the Principles they insisted on.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Cannot, is false, and that I dare not, falser; I will not come to-day.
From The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar by Ebenezer Charlton Black
Isn’t a novel, as we might have said in high school, one of the falsest things going as well as one of the truest?
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 1, 2019
“Biography is the falsest of the arts,” he said.
From New York Times ● Feb. 5, 2010
The falsest of truisms is that art is communication, as Novelist Brigid Brophy demonstrates with this admirably wicked little book.
From Time Magazine Archive
But they were the falsest thing in the sea and the old man loved to see the big sea turtles eating them.
From "The Old Man and The Sea" by Ernest Hemingway
But the theories thus developed are the falsest of false guides as to the original meaning of the old religions.
From Introduction to the Science of Sociology by Robert Ezra Park
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