"One of the more entertaining aspects of media coverage of media is how so many who blast Trump for half truths attack us with half truths," he continued.
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For months, I'd offered her half truths and lied by omission.
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The speech was, indeed, full of half truths and outright lies.
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Their silence, half-truths or platitudes on these issues was surprising.
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"She has bought into half-truths perpetrated by the defense," Hughes said.
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Lies, damned lies and half truths Sexual assault accusations against Trump debunked?
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But history is full of half-truths, and Thanksgiving is no exception.
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They said, 'Oh you are lying, or you are telling half-truths.
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It's the same format for all of them: half lies, half-truths.
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She deftly sifts through the famous stories for half-truths and fictions.
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But it's better to try than to get lost in alarmist half-truths.
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Half-truths, as the saying goes, are like half-bricks: easier to throw.
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I dare you to fact-check his diatribe of hyperbole and half-truths.
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Zeid on Wednesday decried Trump's "half-truths," which fuel racial and religious prejudices.
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His rallies were littered with inconsistencies, or reversals, or half-truths, or sometimes lies.
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The show is full of red herrings, cryptic half-truths, and ripe for speculation.
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Both men cajoled and corralled the electorate with half-truths and flat out lies.
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Both are half-truths, says Scott Hamilton of Leeham Company, a consultancy in Seattle.
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THE Brexit campaign has been plagued by little white lies, half-truths and disinformation.
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These confrontations will be tearful, sprinkled with plenty of white lies and half-truths.
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Here are five takeaways from the debate, which included some truths and half-truths.
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Some of the claims were completely false, while others were half-truths and exaggerations.
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That lump of goo has worked out mathematical truths, moral half-truths, and philosophical ambiguities.
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Empty tables and broken promises and half-truths that turn out to be whole lies.
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And then there is the plethora of half-truths, irrelevancies and downright lies (see article).
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They can easily identify the users who are most vulnerable to emotion-laden half-truths.
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Rodrigo Duterte, president of the Philippines, has a "keyboard army" to purvey his half-truths.
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We can't have half-truths and hyperbole … convincing people this isn't to be taken seriously.
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Despite smear campaigns, half-truths and lies in the media, many people see through them.
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Many contain a mixture of hoaxes and half-truths, making them difficult to fact-check.
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Here's how the falsehoods, or half-truths, in Nicholson's briefing break down line by line.
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Lots of details are lost to time, and half truths become facts through centuries of misinformation.
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Instead, she speaks in tantalizing half-truths that mask her identity, her mission, and her intentions.
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Looking at some of the half-truths offered to investors about Fed-fighting moves can help.
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They build trust with an audience, poisoning minds over time using deceptive viewpoints and half-truths.
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But disseminating half truths to avoid stepping on anyone's toes is not the way to go.
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Too often the fog of war rolls in after the clouds of half-truths and hyperbole.
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Unfortunately, Trump has a history of exaggerations, half-truths, and outright falsehoods, and becomes easily distracted.
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Instead of taking responsibility, they spin half-truths that unfortunately, too many people accept as fact.
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Any lies, half-truths, or exaggerations undermine trust, and trust is the engine of outbreak response.
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It's an antidote to the reigning conceits, self-deceptions, half-truths and clichés of our day.
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Half-truths and rumors about the virus even appear in videos attempting to fact-check rumors.
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Strictly speaking, Norman is a con artist, a spinner of exaggerations, half-truths and outright lies.
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Just as in life, there are secrets and gaps, half-truths that are only partially explained.
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Instead, the president is manipulating public opinion against Mr. Mueller by lies, half-truths and subterfuge.
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However, if Mueller wants to investigate half-truths in Washington, this will be a permanent, multigenerational investigation.
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There was a case where a court held that telling half-truths to law enforcement wasn't enough.
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Anything less than that spreads half-truths and lies about what it means to do sex work.
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Brexit makes me despair: lies and scaremongering combined with economic and political half-truths have led to this.
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It was an impressive day of half-truths, distortions and lies, ironically undercut by Pruitt's venue of choice.
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And they found out he was lying and telling half-truths about many of the products on stage.
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It's the stew of grievances, half truths and lies, all of it stirred by love, loathing and jealousy.
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Cunningham broadcasts lies and half truths about Scott's character, casts aspersions, hints at an affair with Maggie Bateman.
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Now Avenatti is being allowed to repeat this same process, mixing truths with half truths and evading accountability.
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They are self-centered and cynical, manipulating resentment with half-truths and untruths, accommodating the loony extremist right.
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That is a tall task — the president's penchant for half-truths, exaggerations and outright falsehoods is well established.
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Miseducation surrounding slavery in the US has led to an elaborate mythology of half truths and missing information.
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Such claims are only half-truths, underplaying the complexities of American politics and the socioeconomics that drive them.
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" Continues Brown: "It's hard for [Jed] sometimes, but I told him that half-truths and lies get you nowhere.
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But in Britain's Brexit referendum, too, social media played an important role in spreading half-truths and outright lies.
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"The recent attacks on my family and myself were a series of half truths and full lies," Garrett said.
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He's willing to tell a vast and dizzying array of lies, half-truths, and fabrications to advance his goals.
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In the words of Radiohead, the distortions, half-truths and flat-out lies were everywhere all of the time.
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It's kind of game over for Beijing in terms of the cover-up, the denials and the half-truths.
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On all these subjects, the newspaper demonstrated that Ms. Le Pen had put forward half-truths and outright falsehoods.
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Alsup also said that he was frustrated with both Uber and Waymo for presenting "half-truths" in the case.
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But even so, how is playing with words and half-truths really demonstrating a different way to live and love?
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Thanks to Neptune's position in the cosmos, "this time around, Mercury will be erratically reacting to half-truths," Stardust adds.
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Like Trump, Lord is willing to offer half-truths and insults, and doesn't back down when confronted with the facts.
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Not surprisingly, the Chamber itself had to resort to half-truths and misrepresentations to rebut the growing critiques of the RAA.
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The European Commission says many such stories in British media over the decades have ranged from half-truths to complete inventions.
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"The recent attacks on my family and myself were a series of half-truths and full lies," he said last year.
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I understand that it might be wrong to tell half truths to the next generation, but, come on, they're still kids.
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AARP and other special-interest groups employ alarmist half-truths and gin up hysteria to promote their self-serving political agendas.
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Why on those increasingly infrequent occasions when Afghanistan attracts notice do half-truths and pettifoggery prevail, rather than hard-nosed assessments?
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It has prompted a wave of counter-propaganda, half-truths and rumor in Ukraine that range from the jingoistic to the farcical.
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" She added, Kim "obviously has not read all of the actual evidence -- she has bought into half truths perpetrated by the defense.
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"Fake news" — news content that either misleads people with half-truths, or outright lies — has become a permanent fixture of the internet.
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"The recent attacks on my family and myself were a series of half-truths and full lies," he said earlier this year.
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It was a tale enveloped in half-truths, exaggerations and the wishful thinking of the National Geographic Society, which sponsored the expedition.
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"Just as in life, there are secrets and gaps, half-truths that are only partially explained," Priya Parmar writes in her review.
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She looks cheery when attacking, even cheerier when attacked and absolutely radiant when descending into a bog of half-truths and fictions.
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Time and selfhood get mixed in with the half-truths and partial vision, and it's alarming how supremely natural it all feels.
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In a wild 333-minute debate, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton brought up dozens of inaccuracies, half truths, and a few surprising truths.
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Timbuktu's story has always been told and re-told: a tapestry of half-truths and almost-truths shaped by outsiders and Timbuktiens alike.
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TC: You also write that switching VC jobs is "complicated" and then ambiguously refer to "half-truths" and "soul searching," amongst other things.
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Having the conversation—and acknowledging that purpose of porn when necessary—could change a vicious cycle of silence and half-truths about sex.
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Morris's move, as a filmmaker, is not to confront Bannon directly, but to undercut Bannon's half-truths with the tools available to him.
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It has always churned out buckshot blasts of imaginings and ideas and half-truths at a rate beyond my control—hence the meds.
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Eventually, you no longer feel like you're falling—the constant whoosh of half-truths and gleefully delivered apocalyptic provocations becomes your new equilibrium.
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It would be easy to see this deluge of misinformation, half-truths, and outright fabrication as an exclusive product of the Trump era.
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Let's be clear, as fact-checker Daniel Dale was busy pointing out on Twitter, it was full of half-truths and total distortions.
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Instead, Garrow's epilogue delivers a crude screed against Obama the president and Obama the man, filled with bald assertions and coy half-truths.
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Consider "Half-Truths," his current show at the New Museum in New York, and the three new social "sculptures" he made for it.
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In Wednesday night's NBC News Commander-in-Chief forum, both candidates offered up a series of inaccuracies and half-truths to national security questions.
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That means the whole event could be filled with lies and half-truths being flung from either side of the stage, with no accountability.
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The idea that you can scare our community with a bunch of lies and half-truths would be insulting if it weren't so predictable.
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The key is their ability to traffic in half-truths, to pick up on a legitimate issue and put it to an illegitimate end.
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"Beyond what they have copied from our plan, Third Point's presentation is riddled with inaccuracies, half-truths, simple generalizations, and vague recommendations," Campbell said.
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The mounting lies and half-truths about Trump and his staff's communications with Russians only cast a bigger cloud over the ongoing Russian investigation.
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With reputable-sounding names like The Ecologist and Global Research, they produce slick websites that weave facts, half-truths and pseudoscientific analysis into sinister assertions.
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Now, in the cold light of day, let's take a moment to unpack (or unfurl?) the many truths and half-truths about why size matters.
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He retorted that Mr Bershidsky was dealing in half-truths, at best, and in any case relying on a stereotypical dichotomy between East and West.
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But in its mode of communication, its use of half-truths and oversimplification, the propaganda of Daesh uses tactics similar to those of the populists.
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This is the story about the birth of a legend, after all, which means it must contain—basically by definition—half-truths, embellishments, distortions, manipulations.
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By using half-truths and flawed facts to advance his arguments, Mr. Husock shows disdain for the fundamental standards and ethics that true journalists honor.
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" Smith added, "It is very hard to be silent when falsehoods & half-truths are said about you and there is no way to defend yourself.
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"We are living in the midst of a sea of information that includes half-truths, manipulated information, opinion and advertising masquerading as news," Schneider said.
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For a musician who built a career on lies, half-truths, and personal reinventions, it's almost surprising there hasn't been a Dylan mockumentary until now.
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At a news conference in London this week, American reporters grilled Mr. Johnson about a catalog of half-truths, untruths and insults by the Brexiteers.
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And yet you knew about the problems, continued to put the system into place, and when we asked about it, you've told us half-truths.
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It's enough to cause a doctor visit itself — an anxiety-producing jumble of half-truths and heated rhetoric that is all but impossible to parse.
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Coupled with modern technology's ability to disseminate truths, half-truths, and complete lies, this means we're in a phase ripe for scams, intentional and not.
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" Westbrook also addressed Charles' video on Twitter, writing that she felt "disappointed" by the response, which she claimed was "littered with so many lies & half truths.
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Why, I asked Ms. Konnikova, despite my years of experience untangling half-truths and spotting deception in my classroom, am I still so terrible at it?
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Among the various half-truths and factual inaccuracies cited by Roe, Hubbard also claims that there is "no such thing as a fat cell" (there is).
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" She accused Trillin of selectively choosing quotes from the women she interviewed to support "preconceived notions," and wrote that the piece presented "half-truths at best.
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Discussing trade at last week's disastrous G7 summit in Quebec, Europe's leaders met Donald Trump's volley of insults and half-truths with a fusillade of facts.
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Brexit, a decision that required long, calm contemplation of the facts, was rushed through in a whirlwind of emotional arguments, half-truths and dishonestly-painted buses.
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This campaign, which seeks to discredit the democratic character of Spain, is so ludicrous that it needs to rely on falsehoods, half-truths and distorted facts.
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A jokey news package featuring Fake Tucker Carlson and Fake Jeanine Pirro is just as overrun with half-truths and outright lies as the real thing.
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So now is the time, well before the voting in caucuses and primaries begins, to size up the various Democratic candidates' hypocrisies, half-truths and vulnerabilities.
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A spokesperson for Zuckerberg described Business Insider's reporting as "a collection of unfounded rumors, exaggerations, and half-truths which unfairly malign several of our valued employees."
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A representative for Zuckerberg described Business Insider's reporting as "a collection of unfounded rumors, exaggerations, and half-truths which unfairly malign several of our valued employees."
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"Let me be clear that the company's strategy of releasing half-truths does nothing to reach a final settlement for you and your families," he said.
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"For months, Todd Rokita has spread lies and half-truths about my family, claiming we are not Hoosiers and attacking my wife's legal career," Messer wrote.
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Phil Berger, the leader of the Republican state Senate, has done little but peddle half-truths and outright lies to the public for years on end.
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Teachers at my school gave lectures about Shi'ites, saying that we were worse than infidels, spreading half truths to make Shias look bad to impressionable kids.
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"It's only fair that I have a chance to respond 2 any smears or half truths about alleged "Collusion with Russians" from 2day's Intel Hearing," Stone tweeted.
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" Instead, "everyone takes these others that are facsimiles or half-truths or exaggerations of things for the effect of writing—they take those completely at face value.
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Don't believe the hype about a Singapore property pick-up, Nomura said, as it addressed some "half-truths" about one of Asia's long-time real estate hotspots.
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"They are self-serving half-truths from a self-serving half-man who has somehow convinced half the country that sacrifice is the same thing as success."
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That's a dangerous place for a healthy democracy to be -- awash in a sea of half-truths and spin with no agreed-upon safe harbor to seek.
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His blistering review in Foreign Affairs called it "astoundingly repetitive", "simplistic" and a "potpourri of half-truths and assertions" (and full of "vaporous, dreary jargon", to boot).
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But after shitting out a bunch of half-truths and confirming his sexual predation, Louis C.K.'s back to being the tell-it-like-it-is guy?
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Mr. Salvini also ridiculed the Italian news media, including reports that he and Mr. Di Maio would take turns as prime minister, as riddled with half-truths.
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All parties to the conflict operate in their own manufactured realities and engage in influence campaigns, where peddling half-truths or exaggerating facts has become a norm.
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Fernando Campoamor-Sanchez, one of the prosecutors, described Mr. Craig's final letter on the matter to the Justice Department as a "masterpiece" of lies and half-truths.
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One of the big advantages Trump has is that he's happy to spout lies and half-truths, secure in the knowledge that he won't be called on it.
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" What followed was a rare moment of laughter from a press corps hardened to Trump lies and half-truths when he said: "A lot of people follow it.
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"There are so many outstanding questions that we need truthful answers to today, because so far, we've only gotten half-truths, misleading answers, or outright falsehoods," said Rep.
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"The recent attacks on my family and myself are a series of half-truths and whole lies," said Mr. Garrett, an Army veteran who has a newborn daughter.
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Mr. Young, who also wrote the script, teases out the story in bits of coy hints and half-truths about a tragic accident, leaving too many questions unanswered.
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With its huge reach, Facebook has begun to act as the great disseminator of the larger cloud of misinformation and half-truths swirling about the rest of media.
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During the hearing, Stone tweeted that he hopes to testify before the intelligence committee to respond to the "smears" and "half truths" he claims have been launched against him.
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Pruitt's war on regulation rests comfortably on these sorts of half-truths, but, when this long-awaited resurrection of the coal industry doesn't come, he'll need new talking points.
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A recent Washington Post profile on a mentally ill Trump supporter illustrated how the half-truths and toxic attitudes that ooze from such sites often buoy pro-Trump sentiment.
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Here's a breakdown of the most recent misleading claims, the half-truths and everything in between, along with the fuller picture, based on official statistics and reporting from CNN.
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Regulation, policy and communication must be based on a synthesis of all the strongest science and not based on half-truths from cherry-picked data, anecdotes and hypothetical fears.
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"They are self-serving half-truths from a self-serving half-man who has somehow convinced half the country that sacrifice is the same thing as success," Oliver said.
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"You have told this committee and you have told me half-truths over and over again," Senator Tammy Duckworth of Illinois, where Boeing is headquartered, said at one point.
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There is so much misinformation, so if what you have been told has been riddled with half-truths and sometimes even lies, it is hard to know the facts.
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Untruths and half-truths circulate liberally on social media platforms, and populists on both sides of the Atlantic have been aggressively trying to discredit and intimidate the mainstream media.
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Things took a further turn when West began making comments on the history of racism and slavery in America that alternated between misinformed half-truths and wholly incorrect statements.
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The two detectives were indicted this year, adding to the body of evidence that police perjury and half-truths remain a persistent problem for the New York Police Department.
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In a video address, he said that the reports were "a series of half-truths and whole lies," and that the real reason he was stepping down was alcoholism.
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Popular half-truths included whether they had ever cried at work, fallen asleep at their desk, had an interoffice relationship or picked up a side job on the sly.
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It is hard to remember a time other than a royal wedding when so many commentators have uttered so many half-truths—or indeed non-truths—with such grave conviction.
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From misrepresentations to half-truths and flat-out lies, Trump has talked around and away from the truth more brazenly than any major party presidential nominee in modern political history.
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So Mr Trump, in Steve Bannon's pungent phrase, "floods the zone with shit" by throwing out so many theories, lies and half-truths that Americans hardly know what to believe.
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"We need more nuanced information about development and poverty, not oversimplified half-truths," said Beathe Øgård, President of the Norwegian Students' and Academics' International Assistance Fund, which runs the awards.
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His attorneys are also seeking to move the trial, alleging North Charleston's residents are unduly influenced by a "toxic stew of half-truths, misperceptions and false narratives," according to CNN.
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We spoke to her about fictionalizing undercover cop Mark Kennedy's impact on the women he dated in Nottingham and telling a story still shrouded in half-truths and cover-ups.
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But until voters on all sides start to call baloney on the shutdown scare tactic, expect more of the hyperbole, half truths, and deflection from the real issues to continue.
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On one level, this convention was Fox News on steroids — the half-truths, the grievances, the demonizing, and certainly the elderly audience, as overnight ratings for the first nights showed.
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Further complicating matters, social media sites have generally granted politicians considerably more leeway to spread lies and half-truths through their individual accounts and in certain instances through political ads.
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"The reasons we give for a breakup aren't always the truth, or they're half-truths, or we can't see that that reason has something to do with us, too," Fitzpatrick says.
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That black hole is so full of fantasies and half-truths that it's impossible for millions of people to have a basic grasp of the facts needed to make informed decisions.
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Every friendship in his life was built on lies and half-truths, he said, and they all ended with him running away, often with his friends' personal information in his pocket.
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"Since the start of last week, Mediapart has attacked me on the basis of stolen photos, rumors, half-truths and things that have nothing to do with my job," he wrote.
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"Much of what has been targeted towards me and my team, has been half-truths, or at best stories that have been so twisted they do not resemble reality," he continued.
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The Capitals declined requests to make Orpik available to the news media on Saturday night, but his coach, Barry Trotz, after speaking with him, relayed an explanation mired in half-truths.
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But the cascading, untrue attacks definitely shows me the kind of climate that we're in, and how nefarious forces are going to try to spread lies and half-truths about you.
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Roth said it was important to correct campaign statements in other countries that were based on "fears, lies and half-truths," given the importance of the U.S. election for the world.
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" She also writes that she is "a big fan of honesty" and adds that "it's also wrong to tell half-truths and be sneaky about the truth — no doubt about it.
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This yeah-but-Ukraine defense is hung on a series of half-truths and thinly reported pieces that suggest that there were elements within Ukraine that didn't want Trump to win.
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But he took refuge in the notion that politics is by its nature replete with exaggerations, half-truths and outright whoppers, so he was hardly adding much to the sum total.
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" The way Frum sees it, in our current social media dystopia that is fueled by half-truths and straight up lies, "We are all vulnerable to weaponized falsehoods that exploit our prejudices.
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And its rise has been accompanied by the emergence of an extensive "alt-right" media infrastructure, parts of it Russian-backed, serving invective and half-truths to an angry minority of Germans.
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Less scrupulous publishers sometimes take the next step, creating pseudo news stories rife with half-truths or outright lies that are tailor-made to emotionally target audiences already inclined to believe them.
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The dispute between Apple and Spotify over subscription revenues continues today with a letter from the former accusing the latter of using "rumors and half-truths" to advance "unfair and unreasonable" demands.
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"We find it troubling that you are asking for exemptions to the rules we apply to all developers, and are publicly resorting to rumors and half-truths about our service," it reads.
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"We find it troubling that you are asking for exemptions to the rules we apply to all developers, and are publicly resorting to rumors and half-truths about our service," Sewell wrote.
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"Much of what has been targeted towards me and my team has been half-truths or at best stories that have been so twisted that they do not resemble reality," he said.
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"When you're operating at this level, there are people who are really invested in pushing out fake stories, telling lies and half-truths in order to try take people down," he said.
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It's only fair that I have a chance to respond 85033 any smears or half truths about alleged "Collusion with Russians" from 2day's Intel Hearing Stone's tweet followed an exchange between Rep.
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Travel is filled with so many half-truths and flat-out misconceptions that if you listened to all the excuses, you'd never get to see any place other than where you are.
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However, he has also dismissed some negative news stories as half-truths leveled at him by critics who disagree with his agenda, though he has not specified which reports he considers inaccurate.
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LONDON (Reuters) - A senior British diplomat in Washington has resigned, saying she did not want to "peddle half-truths" over Brexit for a government she did not trust, CNN reported on Friday.
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His strategy is to launch a tirade of lies, half-truths and accusations and to use media energy to cast his political opponents as being as sleazy and corrupt as he is.
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" Mr. Corbyn had harsh words for familiar adversaries in the British news media, which is mainly hostile to him and which, he said, enjoys the "freedom to spread lies and half-truths.
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Though the phrasing "guayabera shirt" makes this Spanish speaker flinch, Obejas succeeds in capturing the sense of doom, the weather of half-truths and paranoia, floating at the edges of Cleo's Cuba.
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Politifact rated most of the points in her speech as true or mostly true, with a few half-truths, and only one false, on a misrepresentation of the extent of her bipartisan efforts.
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But despite her acquittal, Borden continued to suffer in the court of public opinion, as newspaper readers across the country greedily consumed the salacious story, told with exaggerations, half-truths and lurid headlines.
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" He said that European museums were not open about the violent colonial circumstances in which some objects had been seized, with wall labels that he described as full of "half-truths" and "euphemisms.
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His lawyers have been negotiating terms of an interview out of concern that their client — whose exaggerations, half-truths and outright falsehoods are well documented — could provide false statements or easily become distracted.
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Video Both episodes have been cited as high-profile examples of so-called perjury traps, in which prosecutors secure convictions for lying or telling half-truths without being able to prove any underlying offense.
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For the PMA to support a show that encourages visitors "to rise from the bondage of myths and half truths" and to initiate collective action reminded me that this crucial work is never done.
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On all of these points, Trump is offering half-truths, which would be bad by the standards of ordinary presidential conduct but by Trump standards is really more of a glass-half-full situation.
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" In the editorial, the Times called the six-page letter released by the White House "a giant, overheated expression of grievance, a vitriolic attack backed mostly by half-truths, unsubstantiated assertions and whiny misrepresentations.
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Intervening in that way and using this language of "discovery" was important to me, because it is such a strange place to be, where lies or half-truths are elevated to the level of fact.
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The velocity of social sharing, the power of recommendation algorithms, the scale of social networks, and the accessibility of media manipulation technology has created an environment where pseudo events, half-truths, and outright fabrications thrive.
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Go to any Bitcoin-related forum and you'll see an immense amount of deception, half-truths, and good old muddying of the water, making it very hard to make an informed decision of any kind.
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" She called Spicer out for his role in the Trump administration: "This is the office of president spouting lies or half-truths or knocking down real truths, and you were his agent for those months.
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The case for the invasion was thin — or rather, it was thick, but, we now know, filled with faulty intelligence, half-truths and a fervor for war that was unsated by the conflict in Afghanistan.
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"I am also at a stage in life where I would prefer to do something more rewarding with my time, than peddle half-truths on behalf of a government I do not trust," she wrote.
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Senior British diplomat Alexandra Hall Hall has left the U.K. diplomatic service over Brexit, saying in a letter that she could no longer "peddle half-truths" for the leaders she does not "trust," CNN reports.
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Mr. Trump wove truth, half-truths, hyperbole, exaggeration and lies seamlessly into a vast swirling reality that swept the audience along in an energizing experience as thrilling as an overtime win at the Super Bowl.
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Everyone in China knows better than to take what Communist Party mouthpieces tell us at face value, but when 1.4 billion lives are at stake, is it still possible to live with the half-truths?
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SAN DIEGO — The last line of defense against the torrent of half-truths, untruths and outright fakery that make up so much of the modern internet is in a downscale strip mall near the beach.
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"The problem he's got is he has a client who he wants to be transparent but most of what he says are obfuscations and half-truths," said a second attorney working on the Russia investigation.
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In this battle, pundits, producers, and politicians would rather believe in industry-favored myths and half-truths than listen to the more complex story told by women-led organizations working tirelessly to bring girls into tech.
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A person's political identity, say Porter and Wood, isn't easily influenced by learning, for example, that Trump routinely spreads false information about pretty much everything, or that Hillary Clinton has told her share of half-truths.
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Donald Trump's first speech as the presumptive GOP nominee was conciliatory, mild-mannered, and as full of half-truths and unverifiable bluster as everything else he's said over the course of this increasingly weird primary campaign.
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Attempts by general obligation holders "to challenge the Puerto Rico statutes that created liens for COFINA bondholders are self-serving and built on deceptive half-truths," COFINA's senior bondholder group said in a statement on Tuesday.
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For many people, the confusion of how to approach sex ed manifests itself in a bizarre mashup of sexual facts, half-truths, and lies being taught to kids who may not know anything else about sex.
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Chen advised that founders should get conditions like that written out in ironclad documents, but that great damage can still be wrought by the "convenient" lies and half-truths that founders and their investors sometimes swap.
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" The UAW in a statement said GM was "playing games at the expense of workers" and accused the automaker of half-truths and "purposefully stalling the process to starve UAW-GM workers off the picket lines.
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But if things start going poorly for Trump, and he senses that he is losing, he may revert to type, summoning half-truths and outright lies as facts and trying to define Clinton by calling her names.
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With 62 percent of Americans getting their news from social media and 44 million reading it on Facebook pages, these bots can easily promulgate lies and half-truths, especially when users aren't able to recognize the source.
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The significant increase in the whoppers being told this political season indicates that candidates feel they can say almost anything with impunity because they face little or no consequence for their misstatements, half-truths, or outright lies.
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While trust in government has been trending downward for decades, trust in the United States now appears to be in free fall as a host of half truths and outright lies become entrenched in our political system.
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Instead, people are sharing rumors, fake stories and half-truths about COVID-19 with each other directly across the likes of Instagram and Twitter as they struggle to understand how best to protect themselves and their families.
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As such, it does something no other Watergate book does: tells the story not as a tidy tale with a clear beginning and inevitable end, but as an experience thick with confusion, rumors, alarm, and half-truths.
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Polley carried Grace Marks in her heart, as she came to realize that her mother was harboring as many half-truths as Atwood's narrator, and that her mother, too, had managed to elude comprehension in her own lifetime.
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It is because we advocate on behalf of patients that we need to address the dangerous misconceptions and half-truths touted by the Right to Try movement, which is backed by a libertarian think tank, The Goldwater Institute.
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The important thing is to understand as far as possible what any treatment can and cannot achieve, so the decision you make is based not on unexplored half-truths but on a proper consideration of what is possible.
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Rather than engaging in fear-mongering and the telling of half-truths, the Surgeon General would be far better served advocating that we apply these same tried-and-true tactics to a tightly regulated, adult-use cannabis market.
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The story of Asgard has echoes all around our own world: the "free world" built on the subjugation and slaughter of others; the sanitization of our past and current misdeeds; the younger generation raised on patriotic half-truths.
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Instead, she gives us the stories and half-truths that tie together a series of events into a neat package that could be called a history of the 1953 coup that deposed the Iranian Prime Minister, Mohammad Mosaddegh.
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This may help them in the rural areas where they operate, but it doesn't defeat activists who are very skilled in using social and mass media to publicise their views, which are often filled with misinformation and half-truths.
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As far-right ideas spread, and misinformation abounds, her books are a piercing reminder of how extreme politics can appeal to the sanest-seeming people—and that half-truths and malfeasance are as intrinsic to human nature as breathing.
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It's also the culmination of a political campaign that has been one of the nastiest in recent British history, defined by a staggering number of half-truths, distortions, inaccuracies, and fibs told by politicians, media, and the general population.
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Earlier this week, President Donald Trump stood behind a podium in Hackberry, Louisiana, spitting hyperbolic half-truths about the Green New Deal, assorted Democrats, and the eternal shittiness of LaGuardia airport (OK, that was one of the truth-truths).
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This may help them in the rural areas where they operate, but it doesn't defeat activists who are very skilled in using social and mass media to publicize their views, which are often filled with misinformation and half-truths.
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Jeffrey Kastner: You have two big shows up simultaneously now—"Atlas, Plural, Monumental," your retrospective at the Contemporary Art Museum in Houston (CAMH), and "Half Truths," the exhibition and residency you're doing at the New Museum in New York.
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But I can honor them better by being grateful for the cacophony of voices — the people calling out more bad men, more weak allies, more hypocritical statements, and more shitty half-truths, over and over until it feels like too much.
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For the aspiring entrepreneur who wants to work at an early-stage company or start their own company, it is important while deciding the proper next step in your career to comprehend the myths, lies and half-truths of immigration policy.
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With Britons evenly divided just over two months before the vote, campaigning has become increasingly bitter with both sides of the argument accusing the other of playing on people's fears and peddling half-truths to woo voters before the referendum.
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Had the one-two punch of him and Bill O'Reilly being forced out for serial sexual harassment not happened, the Fox News that he built might even have remained his legacy, blithely carrying on with half-truths and sackloads of money.
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Drawer after drawer in his studio is filled with historical photographs telling various kinds of half-truths: 1960s paparazzi snaps of the British royal family stippled with airbrushing, images taken automatically by space probes, publicity shots scrawled with cropping marks.
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If only there weren't a journalist walking around the Getty Center asking people questions about her, stalking her for a profile she hadn't agreed to, didn't want written and probably would just end up filled with misquotes and half-truths.
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Trump's never-ending stream of misinformation, half-truths and conspiracy theories seems designed to confuse voters and to create ambiguity and uncertainty about the outcome of investigations in a way that leaves even the closest observer unsure about the facts.
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Third, its unique combination of lies and half-truths has built a virtual reality so complete that it leaves its viewers too misinformed to fulfill their most basic responsibilities as citizens to make informed choices about the direction of the country.
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In fact, says Vanda Felbab-Brown, an expert in international conflict and organized crime, it's a narrative steeped in half-truths and spin that, in some cases, acts as a cover for the involvement of state officials in the drug trade.
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Fagen's lawsuit, riddled with half-truths and omissions, misleadingly fails to state that the day after Walter died, Mr. Fagen had his lawyer send a demand letter to Walter's estate, thus beginning a legal campaign against Walter's family immediately after his death.
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" Spain's centrist El Pais newspaper said that Trump's speech, although more "orderly" than his more impromptu utterances, was full of "half-truths and manipulated data," whereas Italy's Corriere della Sera attacked Trump's "absolutely groundless accusation that illegal immigrants would destroy America's middle class.
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Michael Roth, Germany's European affairs minister, told Reuters Trump's statement was incorrect and it was important to correct campaign statements in other countries that were based on "fears, lies and half-truths", given the importance of the U.S. election for the world.
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They should target institutions designed to reach the voter base not with hyperbole and half-truths, and not to whip up the base into faux-outrage with reactionary viral hot takes, but to clearly, compassionately, and engagingly communicate conservative values and ideals.
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Trump's great gift -- and also the root of his problems in relation to the comments he has made about Charlottesville -- is that he will gleefully repeat half truths and even lies as long as they reinforce the point he wants to make.
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But Zucker's main realization was that putting Trump front-and-center—and allowing people like Lord and McEnany to provide a credible-seeming foundation for his lies, half-truths, and ravings—instead of, say, reporting or news, would let the network thrive.
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On "Fox & Friends," which provides President Trump with steady ration of half-truths and hatreds to fill an empty head and an empty schedule, a co-host had some advice for younger citizens just now learning how to use the wings of democracy.
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And its suggestion that conspiracy is the animus of American public life — and, thus, a natural subject for American artists — lands with particular force as we all swim in the daily flood of half-truths and dubious theories from the First Twitter Account.
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What follows are years' worth of shocking revelations about both the effectiveness of techniques like waterboarding (spoiler: they're not effective) and about the many people who peddled half-truths or lies about what was really going on at CIA black ops sites.
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In the Sunday interview with CBS correspondent Scott Pelley, Sisi uttered a series of lies and half-truths about his government's gross human rights violations, and confirmed for the first time that Egypt's military is working closely with Israel in the Sinai Peninsula.
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It was conducted by author and music writer Bill Flanagan and, while it doesn't contain half as many half-truths as Chronicles, it's a fascinating look into the 75-year-old's head--or at least intentions--as he releases one of his more ambitious projects.
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"Fake think tanks use a mix of selected truths, half-truths, and downright fabricated stuff in order to manipulate people," says Massimo Pigliucci, a philosopher at the City College of New York and author of Nonsense on Stilts: How To Tell Science from Bunk.
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Whether it's another case of the Trump administration sowing fear with its aggressive tactics, or of untruths and half-truths poisoning public opinion, is a key question for the administration and its critics — but either way, it's possible the damage has already been done.
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The former officer's defense team argues that there's a "toxic stew of half-truths, misperceptions and false narratives" surrounding the case in North Charleston, where city officials settled a civil suit with Scott's family for $6.5 million and where the video has been widely seen.
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You got a part of a story-from both a yelp review and from Brian Addison at the Long Beach Post/FoodBeast- who did not confirm this story with us and then posted half truths - the very thing he has accused us of doing.
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"Presenting their opinions as objective facts, reiterating speculations and half-truths, the authors portrayed Adam Szymczyk, the Artistic Director of documenta 14, and Annette Kulenkampff, the CEO of documenta gGmbH, as responsible for what they described as the imminent bankruptcy of documenta," the statement reads.
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Marshall said he felt compelled to address the tragedy to stop "half-truths" about his wife's death and also to share her story in the hopes that it might help other families and individuals who have struggled with mental illness and suicide know they are not alone.
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The kids who looked up to Kanye (and to a lesser extent the stans who thanked him for "starting the conversation" over and over again) are no more likely to fact-check his half-truths now that he says this grotesque phase is (at least temporarily) over.
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Like his brother and sister, Eric was raised in a fun house mirror environment where their father played games with the press in order to attract notoriety, and where family legends, such as the one about their mom being an Olympic skier, were built on half-truths.
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Unfortunately, it appears we are in for a total circus, with full-time activists leveraging fearmongering, oversimplified half-truths, and outright demagoguery in attempts to preserve the one-sided "wins" they have achieved in recent years, cheered on by an echo-chamber of quasi-activist faux-reporters.
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On the contrary, it is the sheer naïveté of the piece that makes it function — the chance it presents for a respite, however silly and brief, from all the incessant, sophisticated little obfuscations and half-truths most of us must rely on to make adult life bearable.
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"In refusing to answer simple questions about this money, and in withholding details about the payment, the administration appears to be adding to the long list of half-truths, inconsistencies and falsehoods it has told the American people and Congress regarding the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action," he wrote.
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President Trump's latest tweets have continued a pattern of attacking the Federal Reserve and his handpicked chairman Jerome Powell for months using a mix of half-truths, mischaracterizations and hyperbolic fantasies, such as a claim that the stock market would be 10,000 points higher if not for the Fed.
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After years spent on covers of the most respected magazines in the country, being likened to Steve Jobs (both in fashion sense and entrepreneurial spirit), and generally ruling over the tech world, Holmes' operation was ultimately exposed for what it was: a jumble of embellished half-truths and outright lies.
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Again, I don't mean to justify the violent actions of anyone, but it was quite striking to sit down with these people and hear how they were radicalized, how their narratives are built on compelling half-truths mixed with conspiracy theories that clearly appeal to a certain type of person.
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Lastly, and most important, by tying together a tissue of lies and half-truths which will progressively be debunked in the coming days and weeks, the author of "Fire and Fury" will in fact strengthen the position of President Trump and reinforce the public's already remarkably high distrust of the media.
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When Wisconsin primary voters cast ballots next week, they'll be choosing from the same menu they faced before the town hall; the same spread of squabbling and half-truths will be laid out, growing increasingly stale for the next few months, until the Republican Party finally lands itself a nominee.
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It's easy to be cynical about the excess of CES: the pointless press conferences that cost millions, the acres upon acres of TVs nearly indistinguishable from last year's, the buzzwords and half-truths used to stave off the reality that none of the junk they're selling matters to them or anyone else.
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It's more of the subtle two-hander scenes that made the prequels controversial among fans, but Filoni likes the moment for its characterization of the manipulations and lies of the evil Sith—Palpatine is machinating to become Emperor and turn Anakin to the Dark Side, using half-truths to sell the con.
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The backdrop: The filing comes on the heels of a separate lawsuit brought by Rich's parents against Fox News for claims of emotional distress surrounding a retracted 2017 story that exploited their son's murder "through lies, misrepresentations, and half-truths" with similar baseless claims that Rich's murder was connected to the DNC leak.
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The allegations themselves were mutable and unfounded: that the Obama administration had spied on the Trump campaign, that Ukrainian officials had actually carried out the DNC cyberattacks and falsely blamed Russia for it, that the Ukrainian government tried to illicitly subvert Trump's presidential bid, and other mixtures of half-truths and outright lies.
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A half-baked trade rumor, a story about a scuffle, a scrap of trash talk, all of it leads the imagination on a leash, takes the mind to a place where you can romp around in truths, half truths, and fictions of the game—a palace of wondering what did, what will, or what could happen somewhere.
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Although Twitter says it's far from the possibility of introducing the labels on its platform, the leaked plans today are a fascinating insight into how one of the world's most powerful platforms for sharing political speech is thinking about how to better monitor the half-truths and all-out lies that so frequently spread on its service.
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In his preface to the book Jelani Cobb explains what that breach is: To be both black and a father is to be seen by much of the world through a haze of stereotypes and half-truths; to be damned by the faint praise of people who expect so little that merely showing up is regarded as a minor miracle.
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However, in my conversations with my mentors and immigration lawyers, I found all these to be at most partially true, and that for the entrepreneurs who are determined to stay in the U.S. to start the next SpaceX, Uber or Palantir or to work at a startup, it's important to learn about the following list of myths, lies and half-truths.
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Read more:Trump fires off some half-truths and blames Obama's immigration policy during 2020 Democratic debate2020 Democrats excoriated Joe Biden for his record on immigration and for repeatedly invoking Obama's name on the campaign trailWe went inside Border Patrol boot camp and found out why the agency may not be prepared to work in detention centers or take care of children
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But the thing is, you're going to work with these people for a very long time and, if you tell each other things that aren't true, convenient lies often, or convenient half-truths, like, "We trust the entrepreneur," or "Don't worry, I want this to be super, super, super big," just to get the deal signed and move on, it will always come back to bite you.
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Trump Wants to Bring Back Coal and Steel Jobs as China Cuts 500,000 In a Tuesday night speech full of half-truths, demi-truths, and of course, alternative facts,…Read more ReadAccording to the study, China and India have accelerated reaching their goal by taking advantage of the shifting energy market, cutting utility reliance on coal, slashing hundreds of thousands of mining jobs, and investing heavily in renewable energy.
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Even before the November 2016 presidential election, the human rights chief charged that Trump shared, along with a number of other aspiring conservative politicians in Europe, tools such as "half-truths and oversimplification," which they also had in common with ISIS (Zeid used the common Arabic name of ISIS, Da'esh.) Last November, Zeid sniped publicly at "populists" who spread "hatred through tweets," which a U.N. official confirmed as including Trump.
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And, I would argue, 2016 will be remembered as the year when we fully grasped just how scary that can be — how easy it was for a presidential candidate to tweet out untruths and half-truths faster than anyone could correct them, how cheap it was for Russia to intervene on Trump's behalf with hacks of Democratic operatives' computers and how unnerving it was to hear Yahoo's chief information security officer, Bob Lord, say that his company still had "not been able to identify" how one billion Yahoo accounts and their sensitive user information were hacked in 2013.
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These reports showed conclusively that Russia's Internet Research Agency used every digital attack surface available — whether it was Facebook or Instagram, where their posts got millions of interactions, or smaller social media networks like Vine and LiveJournal, or even networked video games like Pokémon Go. One takeaway from these reports might be that the Russian influence campaign of 2016 was a freak occurrence enabled by a perfect storm of vulnerabilities: growth-obsessed social media companies, unsuspecting intelligence agencies and an election featuring two hyper-polarizing candidates, one of which had a Russian blind spot and an army of supporters willing to believe convenient lies and half-truths.
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