RT's success in muddying the information pool has been immeasurable.
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But muddying the waters is a common tactic of abusers.
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Other tweets and accounts began to disappear, muddying the waters further.
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What's more, if anyone was muddying the waters, it was me.
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The current U.S.-China trade tensions are muddying the outlook further.
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Muddying the story and keeping the nomination moving is the strategy.
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Bush was unpopular in 2004, and couldn't risk muddying himself any more.
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It's the great muddying we have been telling you about since December.
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And muddying this issue are the preposterous denials we hear from campaigns.
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A court has never ruled on this exact question, muddying the matter further.
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Okay. Muddying its core use case with an upsell to money-making Stories?
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Divisions among Senate Republicans are muddying their strategy for a potential impeachment trial.
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Muddying matters more, Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel's prime minister, has also denounced Mr Soros.
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Muddying the two could undermine the best interests of the children, she said.
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Like her peers, Armantrout is interested in muddying the relationship of poet and reader.
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The luxurious over-ear P3503-Wireless cans bump bass without muddying the high-end.
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The luxurious over-ear P220-Wireless cans bump bass without muddying the high-end.
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Such transfers only add to the news noise and risk muddying already unclear waters.
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It seems like there's going to be a lot of noise muddying your signal.
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CAVUTO TO TRUMP: HOW CAN YOU DRAIN THE SWAMP IF YOU KEEP MUDDYING THE WATERS?
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Legally fine, some say Some close to the President deny he's muddying his legal options.
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How can you drain the swamp if you're the one that keeps muddying the waters?
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It's sort of muddying all the waters so that you can't see anything clearly, essentially.
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" But then, muddying that message, Mr. Giuliani said, "Imagine if that came out on Oct.
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Why it matters: It shows that rule-muddying isn't just for transportation and housing unicorns.
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The appearance of the video and text conversation weren't the only things muddying his draft day.
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Is it possible that Lauren is muddying the very waters that Michael is trying to clarify?
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Muddying the ethical waters further, American prisons are filled with a disproportionate number of black men.
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Americans, of all races, have accepted the erasure of our history and the muddying of events.
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MUDDYING TRADE TALKS Trump's request is also a recipe for bad trade policy, said trade experts.
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These groups happily endorse fraudulent elections, muddying the waters to undermine the efforts of more reputable bodies.
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As of Monday, the petro will be interchangeable with the new fiat currency, further muddying Venezuela's economy.
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Many surveys of both varieties do not ask questions in Spanish, muddying the results among Latino Americans.
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A possible hike in U.S. tariffs on imported cars is further muddying projections for the sector globally.
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But for the public, that very reaction ends up muddying what is actually going on in Washington.
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Oil prices are down more than 16 percent this year, muddying the outlook for inflation expectations globally.
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Perhaps, in its curiously bleak way, the novel means to nudge us toward some much-needed muddying.
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The Murdoch empire and Fox News have long had a substantial role in that muddying and stoking.
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The sound is great, however, and truly room-filling, with great upper volume capabilities without any noticeable muddying.
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Here, he's merely muddying the waters, albeit in what might be the most immoral and disgusting way possible.
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But this risks muddying the waters around who in the chain is responsible for abuses of such technology.
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Muddying a Sacred Cloth: When the Hijab is Worn in Solidarity Growing up, the hijab always puzzled me.
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And Disney is launching a Hulu / Netflix rival of its own in 2019, muddying the waters even further.
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The muddying of authenticity and hierarchy tangible in much of their work evinced the founders' own diasporic identities.
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Domestic political tension and external frictions with Qatar risk delaying the IPO until 2019—and further muddying the waters.
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That should help exporters, but it also means inflation is likely to rise sharply, muddying the monetary policy outlook.
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Also muddying the waters, Britons will vote on June 23 on whether to tear up their EU membership card.
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All those tales about millennials and the rise of gym wear and social media are muddying the classic narratives.
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Still, some balked at the film rehashing once-unique elements and muddying the plot with too many additional characters.
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Every so often, an element of additional (and, once or twice, unwelcome) interpretation peeks in, further muddying the waters.
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For the rest, it'll be a well-oiled propaganda machine capable of muddying the waters of even straightforward news. 10.
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Muddying the waters, today Acer announced the availability of the first Windows 10 laptops with Alexa pre-installed alongside Cortana.
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But oversized ambition and purposefully ignoring scientific and tech realities caused Theranos to fail — muddying the waters for everyone else.
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Muddying the waters Trump has dismissed reports that Russian hackers, acting on orders from Moscow, sought to aid his campaign.
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Most operations we've seen so far have been more about muddying the water than producing convincing evidence for a claim.
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Most notably, the tariff threats and trade wars have undoubtedly impacted certain sectors of the economy, muddying the economic waters.
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It has led to a whole lot of snipping between carriers, further muddying the waters for an already nebulous technology.
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Snaking Asian supply chains mean many intermediate products cross borders several times, muddying the relationship between exchange rates and exports.
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The muddying of the lines that normally exist between peace and war also has implications for what happens at home.
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According to tax experts, the activities in question show a pattern of deception, a deliberate muddying of the financial waters.
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Ethnic Poles' grievances have a sympathetic ear in Warsaw, muddying Lithuania's relationship with its crucial partner in energy and security.
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Top Democrats have accused Nunes, who was part of Trump's transition team, of muddying the investigation for the president's benefit.
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The bass is also a bit too powerful for its own good here, contributing to a muddying of the sound quality.
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For this, China's official news agency accused America of "muddying the waters" and "making the Asia-Pacific a second Middle East".
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Muddying the waters, the breach was discovered during Verizon's bid to acquire the web giant and its assets for $4.83 billion.
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Further muddying the waters, its leader Xavier Domenech favors a left-wing alliance across parties that both back and reject independence.
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Rather, Trump's critics are accusing the administration's allies of muddying the waters in an effort to tarnish the special counsel's investigation.
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But "compromising your imagination is always an anticlimax," forcing creatives to learn how to handle daily details without muddying their visions.
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Even in Biden's victory, his opponents were signaling their intent to hang on until then — or long after — muddying Biden's path.
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And certainly a lot of Republicans got very good at muddying the waters and distracting from the content of those hearings.
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That would give several campaigns the opportunity to spin a result in their favor, muddying the waters of who really won.
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"If this was a muddying the waters, y'all are an E.P.A. hazardous waste site at this point," Mr. Collins snapped back.
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Art-washing—whereby greedsters trade filthy lucre for cultural capital, civic glory, and good PR—thrives by muddying the moral waters.
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But this trend of US carriers quietly muddying and restricting mobile video is really starting to feel equal parts annoying and scammy.
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" The government said the hacking efforts were part of a Russian government campaign set on "muddying or altering perceptions of the truth.
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But it's not known when those warnings were first issued, muddying the question about Mylan's potential liability for allegedly underpaying the rebates.
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That makes a referendum complicated, given the likelihood that no one option would command a majority, potentially muddying, not clarifying, the situation.
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It may also hint at the motivation of Giuliani's muddying mission on Monday that left Trump's legal strategy more confused than ever.
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Mr. Parker, who also stars, relies a little too heavily on genre conventions and Hollywood revenge clichés, muddying the film's political impact.
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And it works not by creating a consensus around any particular narrative but by muddying the waters so that consensus isn't achievable.
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It seemed aimed, as with many Russian disinformation campaigns, at muddying the waters around the issue without necessarily claiming to be credible.
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Genevieve Koski: "Muddying" is putting it mildly in terms of how Natalie's confession squares with the Centre's line on her supposed war crimes.
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But photos of a spinning planet from the light detector on a spinning spacecraft often don't line up perfectly, muddying the planet's details.
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The tweet was sent on a Saturday, and from a personal account, muddying whether it was sent in an official White House capacity.
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It really pops, with bright colors and not any of the drab muddying you'll find on Google's somewhat ill-fated Pixel 2 screen.
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But the desire to avoid muddying their principles needn't cause them to throw their support behind the ticket of Clinton and Virginia Sen.
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It is also muddying the waters for stock-market investing (40 percent), retirement (36 percent) and buying or selling a house (35 percent).
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It isn't only businesses that are unprepared; numerous countries have apparently neglected to work out their oversight responsibilities, further muddying the compliance waters.
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Potentially further muddying negotiations is the situation surrounding Mr. Klein, who himself has been accused of forcibly kissing a former staffer in 2015.
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He was convicted of insider trading in 2012, but also was acquitted on several counts, muddying the issue of whether the government prevailed.
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Meanwhile, some men assigned to the trials' screening groups did not actually get screened, further muddying comparisons between the two groups, she said.
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The critique is the latest example of Republican lawmakers muddying the waters on empirical research in an effort to boost their policy agendas.
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Further muddying the conversation, the White House refuses to acknowledge the offer that Senate leaders on both sides of the aisle have confirmed.
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It adds a wrinkle to already complex restructuring talks, muddying the path to recovery for investors who tied up their savings in Puerto Rico.
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Meanwhile, the advent of new cellular vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X) technology — based on improved cellular networks — is muddying the debate over spectrum-sharing.
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In addition, muddying the waters even further was the fact that Comcast was simultaneously investing in another streaming service for cord cutters: Comcast Stream.
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Muddying the proverbial waters even further, Soylent's creator and CEO—Rob Rhinehart—happens to not be the biggest fan of that whole "food" thing.
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Democrats have derided the probe as a partisan exercise designed to shield Trump by muddying the waters around the federal investigation into his campaign.
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Muddying the waters with arguments that Social Security already is too generous is a sure way to damage the economic security of future retirees.
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Barr was accused of muddying the waters even more with the way he presented Mueller's conclusions in his obstruction-of-justice case against Trump.
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It is now impossible to look at the cultural machinery of the Age of Reason without Lequeu's sexy scopophilic sensibility muddying up the works.
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"Continued presence of these rumors on social media presents a danger of muddying the waters and further destabilizing an already volatile situation," they said.
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They actually like him, but they were worried about that issue muddying the waters much like other issues did for Hillary Clinton in 2016.
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Her husband, former President Clinton, is leading the charge, hitting Sanders supporters as sexist on Sunday while accusing the Vermont senator of muddying facts.
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Further muddying can come from this fact: Often, Chinese steel is shipped to one country and then transshipped to the U.S. or another country.
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Several political activists who on social media had initially criticized her candidacy for unnecessarily muddying an already complicated political field quickly deleted their comments.
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Trump might also be muddying the waters of the Iowa election to shore up his support in New Hampshire, where he has a strong lead.
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Huawei bargain: The trade war between the United States and China just got even messier, muddying the picture for investors that are already on edge.
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The coming release of a secret House memo, hotly sought by conservatives, will intensify the great muddying of the Russia investigation in the public's mind.
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Just as two ambulances pull into the hospital at Camp Evangelista in Cagayan de Oro, the skies once again open up, muddying the dirt courtyard.
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Bringing up the spurious issue of "anti-religiosity" falls into the familiar Trump administration pattern of muddying the waters to deny the existence of racism.
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Muddying the waters further, espionage, crime, and hactivism have been lumped together, in a way that they are almost never combined in the physical world.
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To avoid muddying the texture, pianists rely on a clean, detached style, and as a result the music too often sounds subdued, fastidious, even soporific.
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After a week of dense hearings, Republicans have succeeded somewhat in muddying it up, and many voters are confused, while others are not even listening.
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The main purpose of demanding a renegotiation would be to generate a slow-motion breakdown while muddying the waters so that Washington could avoid blame.
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Separately, non-OPEC member Russia has said it would cut production, but domestic oil companies have not worked out details, muddying the outlook for cutting output.
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If so, the vessel would be recorded as an import at some point and thus subtract from national GDP, muddying the overall impact on the economy.
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Gina Sanchez, CEO of Chantico Global, is also bullish on the long-term picture for oil, but says geopolitical issues are muddying the shorter-term outlook.
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But he has also struck alliances with certain Saudi-style ultraconservative Islamist militias as well, muddying any sense of a battle between secular and religious forces.
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"We're seeing the presidential debates really muddying the waters on Medicare for All," said Jasmine Ruddy, the lead Medicare for All organizer for the nurses union.
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All of this is playing right into the Trump political playbook, by the way -- muddying the waters so much that many voters simply roll their eyes.
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Rather than shoot down U.S. missiles, Russia appears to have simply decided to say it had done so, further muddying the waters of already fraught international discourse.
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Muddying the outlook for Carillion, a slide in oil prices this year has worsened the operating environment for many of its clients, making cash recovery harder still.
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So far, his strategy of muddying the waters has worked perfectly: The impeachment proceedings have continued and shifted the focus away from Mr. Cunha's own legal problems.
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Sessions said although his Justice Department will consider investigations into Clinton, he could not say whether he would recuse himself, muddying his previous statements on the matter.
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Further muddying the waters, Mr. Puigdemont and separatist lawmakers later signed a declaration of independence, a step set in motion by a highly disputed referendum on Oct.
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They were essentially writing God out of the picture, but they did not consider themselves atheists; Dr. Altizer called himself a Christian atheist, further muddying the waters.
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The Trump administration has been remarkably successful at muddying the waters on Ukraine and impeachment, and Republicans in Congress have helped by parroting the administration's talking points.
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Further muddying the waters for himself, Northam, who refuses to resign, said, in a CBS interview with Gayle King, that he had overreacted with his initial apology.
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A report from The Daily News that Sunday suggested that the mother and babies were still in the hospital because of a "minor issue," muddying the waters.
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Muddying voter opinion of Sanders, who enjoyed a 57 percent approval rating in a HuffPost polling average, could damage the Democratic brand ahead of the 85033 midterms.
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Sheridan's movie scripts aren't quite to that level of audience flattery, and they do tend to be at least interested in muddying the picture they initially present.
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Ghosn spearheaded Nissan's turnaround two decades ago, and his arrest has jolted the auto industry, while muddying the outlook for Nissan's three-way alliance with Renault and Mitsubishi.
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Some experts have taken issue with the way Musk talks about these features in the past, arguing he is muddying the waters by overselling a Tesla car's capabilities.
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Trump is trying to draw attention to the crimes that may not have happened, instead of the proven ones that imperil his presidency, while also muddying the waters.
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The comment comes a day after Taiwanese screen maker TPK Holding Co Ltd pulled out of the consortium, muddying the outlook for the struggling Japanese smartphone screen maker.
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But Trump is greatly muddying the water by focusing on issues like border adjustability taxes and caps on deductions, and we haven't even got to repatriation of overseas capital.
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The House passed a temporary spending bill Thursday with money for President Donald Trump's proposed border wall, further muddying the scramble to dodge a partial government shutdown by Friday.
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At the same time, slowing global economic growth has injected significant volatility into markets, muddying the outlook into 2020 and 2021, when an international flotation would likely take place.
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Muddying the waters on the timing of the move, Bullard noted that there was no reason the Fed must hold a press conference in conjunction with a rate hike.
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So they are doing a really, really good job of muddying and this P.R. campaign of what is and isn&apost allowed and what is and isn&apost appropriate.
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Muddying the horizon are major political events - Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservative Party conference in early October, and meetings of EU leaders in late September and then mid-October.
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Further muddying waters, insolvency for the retirement systems would pit beneficiaries of Puerto Rico's largest pension fund against the pension's lenders, who hold liens on some of its assets.
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There was no significant difference in the risk of non-fatal heart attack or non-fatal stroke, potentially muddying the waters for what the company is allowed to claim.
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But the president in an interview with The Wall Street Journal cited Brennan's involvement in the beginnings of the Russia counterintelligence investigation, muddying the waters as to his reasoning.
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Muddying the waters, it's unlikely Flynn's communications were actually collected under 702, because the Russian ambassador he reportedly spoke with was likely in the United States at the time.
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Mr. Trump's strategy of muddying his position has let the Russia issue grow, gumming up the gears in his administration's efforts to move forward with major legislation and decisions.
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The Republicans, as is their brand of the day, have served the president&aposs interest by muddying the waters and touting baseless theories to distract from Trump&aposs behavior.
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There a widespread muddying of the terms "carbon-positive" and "carbon-negative," he notes, both of which are taken to mean removing carbon from the atmosphere in different contexts.
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Ghosn spearheaded Nissan's turnaround two decades ago, and his arrest has jolted the auto industry, while muddying the outlook for Nissan's three-way alliance with Renault and Mitsubishi Motors Corp.
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Each character is represented in such a way that together they appear to populate the scene from an array of unique moments in time, deliberately muddying any attempts at historicity.
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While these interludes go a long way toward illuminating Hallberg's characters, they can also have the opposite effect — muddying the waters and making the already dizzying plot difficult to follow.
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In a world where nothing can be trusted and fake news abounds, ICO and crypto teams are further muddying the waters by trying – and often failing – to pay for posts.
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And muddying the horizon are major political events - Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservative Party conference in early October, and meetings of EU leaders in late September and then mid-October.
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His confession notwithstanding, Mr. Dixon was not indicted until March 2015, because some witnesses had identified Paris Wilson, a casual friend of Mr. Dixon's, as the attacker, muddying the investigation.
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Denying it — or muddying it up, saying "many scientists would debate the percentage [that] is contributable to man versus normal fluctuations" — is what we mean when we talk about denialism.
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Getting testy with Tim Kaine on Exxon-Mobil's muddying of climate research… Kaine: Do you lack the knowledge to answer my question or do you refuse to answer my question?
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Nicholas Kristof President Trump and Devin Nunes have been muddying the waters of the Russia investigation, so let's try to clarify those waters so that they're as clear as vodka.
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Spectral Wound's take on black metal is equally urgent and hefty; limber rhythms pair with a certain sonic density that adds to their ferocious compositions without muddying up the mix.
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It's a way of mocking what is in fact a serious allegation, of muddying the waters of what is a clear-cut question that Mr. Mueller is working to answer.
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The house was a perpetual mess on account of our busy schedules and the two fur children pooping, peeing, scratching, and muddying everything — which also left us in bad moods.
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The American bishops have also been split in their attitudes about Francis, with a few even openly criticizing the pope for muddying church doctrine on issues like homosexuality and divorce.
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Industry publication The Air Current reported Emirates is leaning in that direction, muddying the waters for Boeing as it tries to finalize a deal to sell competing 787-10s to Emirates.
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Muddying the waters further: On Friday morning, Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani told CNN, "I don't know for sure, nor does the president, if there really was" an informant in the campaign.
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"The lack of driver training and standardized controls, symbols and names for these features, is further muddying the waters for consumers," Matthew Avery, Thatcham's director of research, said in a statement.
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Further muddying the waters for investors, two senior officials of the U.S. Federal Reserve said the market's views of when the central bank would raise interest rates may be too "pessimistic".
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The NSC discussion paper obtained by the Post about the new panel suggests it would be created with an eye toward muddying the waters about the Pentagon and intelligence community's findings.
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Ortega's heirs will now inherit stakes in Pontegadea, which groups assets worth around 57 billion euros, rather than Inditex shares which potentially could be sold, muddying prospects for the company's direction.
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What Trump and his associates are doing is pursuing a strategy of muddying the waters as they try to get out from under a decidedly ill-advised tweet from the President.
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Indeed, the saga of Kavanaugh saw the appropriation of several #MeToo tropes in the service of defending the accused, muddying the distinction between victim and perpetrator, the powerful and the powerless.
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Further muddying the waters for investors, two senior officials of the U.S. Federal Reserve said the market's views of when the central bank would raise interest rates may be too pessimistic.
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An unfortunate byproduct of this practice is that Trump and his allies are muddying the waters and reducing their own ability to point out actual wrongdoing when it in fact occurs.
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Further muddying Bloomberg's strategy is his pledge to fund the eventual nominee, even if it ends up being Sanders, who presents the sharpest ideological contrast to the former New York mayor.
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They are now well practiced in throwing cynical, calculated tantrums aimed at muddying the waters and portraying themselves as the real victims of a culture war that they continue to inflame.
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But by trying to make a story that centers on allegations about his behavior toward women into one somehow about race, Fairfax is muddying the discussion the state needs to have.
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While China and Russia have been at the forefront of attacks, other nations including North Korea have been muddying the waters, making it harder to know who is conducting the attacks.
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For the most part, any previous attempts at "moderation" (or simple muddying of the waters) by Trump can be understood as an attempt to get moderate, suburban white voters aboard his campaign.
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As Brian Kahn wrote for Earther, the majority of these efforts have been focused on muddying the climate change debate, or at least paying off politicians to muddy the debate for them.
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While the buds do most of the heavy lifting, the over-ears deliver a fairly intense amount of bass — like an on-the-face woofer that avoids muddying up the main channel.
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Further muddying sentiment, EU officials said on Wednesday that talks with Britain on amending its divorce deal with the European Union had made no headway and no swift solution was in sight.
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Muddying the waters for the Vatican delegation, a Myanmar regional bishop cast doubt at the same news conference about allegations of ethnic cleansing, suggesting "other communities" might be responsible for stoking them.
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Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) has also argued that a special prosecutor would be appropriate in the event of an allegation of crime, muddying an earlier statement he made to HBO's Bill Maher.
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The Spanish government and courts could try to ban parties that advocate secession, but it is also possible that part of the Catalan electorate would boycott the vote, further muddying the waters.
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Political tactics aside, by including Fedor Emelianenko in their list of suspect Russian Trump ties, the Clinton campaign is also further muddying the water of an increasingly confusing geopolitical and sporting landscape.
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It ends with the Jenningses staring down a devastated woman admitting to her crimes, but muddying the simple explanation the Centre gave them for why she must answer for them with her life.
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Indian monsoons, one of the largest determinants of the inflation path, have been erratic and patchy in several regions this year, muddying the outlook for winter-harvested crops and adding to inflationary pressures.
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Further muddying the picture, current Alberta Premier Rachel Notley's New Democratic Party government is currently trailing in the polls ahead of a spring election, facing a stiff challenge from the United Conservative Party.
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He, like the President, always saw the Trump-Russia case as more of a political problem than a legal one, and that muddying the waters would be enough to see his client through.
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Schiff offers bill to make domestic terrorism a federal crime New intel chief inherits host of challenges MORE (D-Calif.) slammed Nunes's decision, accusing him of routing the panel and muddying the investigation.
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By offering so much honest detail so early, she risks turning off key constituencies, alienating donors and muddying the gauzy visionary branding that is the fuel for so much early horse-race coverage.
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Dangarembga writes with intimacy and compassion; there's a sharp poetic crack to the work that keeps the story from muddying in melancholy, as it might in the hands of a less cinematic writer.
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But there's good reason to believe that the right's muddying of the waters — making the story about Ukraine and Hunter Biden, pushing out conspiracy theories, repeatedly trumpeting Trump's own version of events, etc.
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Traditionally, the candidate with the most state delegate equivalents is declared the winner in Iowa — but the party agreed for the first time to release raw vote totals, muddying the results even further.
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The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits unexpectedly fell last week, but the data continued to be influenced by Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, muddying the labor market picture in the near term.
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And this month, Mr. Cruz said his 2012 Senate campaign had failed to properly disclose large loans from Goldman and Citibank, muddying the couple's tale of having poured their life savings into the race.
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Last year's Natural mode was met with some fairly widespread negative feedback for the effect in had in "muddying" the colors — most notably the reds, which ended up somewhere between blood-red and brown.
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Italy's constitutional court gave the green light on Tuesday to a national referendum on the duration of oil and gas drilling concessions in the country, muddying the waters for companies operating in the sector.
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Further muddying the outlook for the future path of U.S. interest rates was the ongoing uncertainty over what the make-up of the Fed and White House staff is going to be next year.
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But now it will have to compete in those negotiations with Hatch-Brady, adding more partisan acrimony to the mix and muddying the future for any affirmative steps to stabilize the individual insurance markets.
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Moreover, the monsoons, one of the largest determinants of India's inflation path, have been erratic and patchy in several regions this year, muddying the outlook for winter-harvested crops and adding to inflationary pressures.
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But whereas Goldsmith's worldly antics tended to avoid muddying his immaculate tux, Legrand's iteration is meant to be more of a MacGyver type who lives in the moment rather than reminiscing on past glory.
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"Beijing is muddying the waters with multiple counter-narratives about the origin of the coronavirus," Fergus Ryan, an analyst who studies Chinese social media at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI), told VICE News.
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Mr. Pence's threat, delivered in Tokyo, came two days after he had signaled openness to meeting with North Korean officials at the Games, somewhat muddying the harsh message he had been sent to project.
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No, they heard him fume about immigrants from "shithouse countries" rather than "shithole countries," and in that scintilla of semantic difference they found a rationale for muddying the waters and rallying around the president.
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An expert at muddying the waters and creating confusion, Mr. Putin advanced a number of alternative theories that could help Moscow address any firm evidence that might emerge as a trail leading to Russia.
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But Netflix also needs new viewers to accept this specific brand of back-seat comedy, even after nearly nearly 30 years of imitators and spin-offs muddying up the well of bad-movie reaction comedy.
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That may be true, but anyone who has watched the industry with even passing interest knows that real network advances take time, and this sort of branding goes a ways toward muddying up consumer understanding.
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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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A parade of surrogates for Donald J. Trump backed away on Sunday from a primary element of his immigration policy, further muddying an issue on which Mr. Trump himself sowed confusion in recent days. Gov.
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But Esper's is just one of the competing narratives that emerged in the chaotic hours after Spencer's dismissal, muddying the waters of a case that could have serious implications for the broader military, analysts say.
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Though that further risks muddying the waters of the effort, given that social media advertising has been the high-powered vehicle of choice for malicious misinformation muck-spreaders (such as Kremlin-backed agents of societal division).
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" Muddying the waters further are her assertions that while "Bruce was gone" after changing her birth certificate, he is also still around "on the inside, where he will happily remain for the rest of my days.
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When the chips start hitting the market mid-next month here will be around 145 different designs to start with, and the company will be further muddying up the waters with different, non-Kaby Lake architectures.
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The rift between Rousseff and her vice president reached breaking point on Monday after an audio message of Temer calling for a government of national unity was released apparently by mistake, further muddying Brazil's political water.
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Her recent book, Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest, is required reading for people trying to understand how social media went from fueling the Arab Spring to muddying a U.S. election.
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And we could soon live in a world where more advanced prosthetics can integrate social media livestreaming, further muddying the waters of a person's right to record what they see and the public's right to privacy.
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But an hour and a half later, Five Star, led by Luigi Di Maio, 31, and the League, led by Matteo Salvini, 45, released another joint statement clarifying — or perhaps muddying — their position on the eurozone.
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The end result of this train of thought is that Nora gets back to Jarden and exposes the Pillar Man's wife as a fraud — because the world is weird enough without muddying it up with lies.
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President Trump has already started muddying the waters in the latest Ukrainian scandal, publicly blasting the whistleblower as a "partisan," even though Trump admitted in the same setting that he doesn't know who the person is.
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Economic data showed the number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits fell unexpectedly to 259,000, but the data continued to be influenced by Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, muddying the labor market picture in the near term.
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Make no mistake: If Trump survives the deepening scandal he now finds himself in, it will be because of Fox and the rest of the pro-Trump media machine muddying the waters and poisoning the public conversation.
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Fending off drowsiness with Red Bull and Katy Perry songs, they are racing through a mind-muddying 55 events, from Dubuque in the northeast to Council Bluffs in the southwest, in a blur of speeches and handshakes.
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Also muddying trade relations between the world's two largest economies was a Chinese court ruling that temporarily barred U.S. chipmaker Micron Technology Inc from selling some of its main products in the world's biggest memory chip market.
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A criminal investigation involving several people close to Matteo Renzi, including his father and his right-hand man, is muddying the image of the former Italian prime minister and threatening his prospects of a return to power.
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He endorsed a return of the old Glass-Steagall rule that requires the separation of investment banking from commercial banking, something Hillary Clinton had alienated the left by refusing to do, thus muddying the ideological waters somewhat.
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But the message is also provoking new doubts about the sincerity of Republican determination to help Dreamers, muddying an immigration debate that is at the center of the conflict and has confounded Washington for almost 20 years.
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Heavy rain lashed fishing villages along the coast, muddying roads and holding up convoys delivering heavy machinery and aid to isolated areas while authorities urged residents to stay away from the shore in case of further waves.
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Further muddying the waters, Britons voted on June 23 to leave the European Union, a surprise outcome that sent shockwaves through global financial markets and means the British economy may slide back into recession in the coming year.
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Muddying the outlook for the coming months is the United Kingdom's vote in late June to leave the European Union, although so far the economic repercussions seem to have been confined to Britain, not its main trading partner.
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They see such attacks as a method of muddying the waters around the probe so as to make it easier to refuse an interview — and to push back on any adverse findings for Trump that might eventually emerge.
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And Trump has already ignored words of caution from the political advisers he does count, whether he is firing off rash tweets that antagonize key Republican votes or muddying a neatly crafted selling point on a policy item.
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This is the first appearance of what would become one of Bejar's most reliable tricks, layering his songs with unlikely combinations of instruments—both acoustic and electric—to amplify the density of his compositions without muddying them up.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan Display Inc on Monday said it has received notice from TPK Holding Co Ltd that the Taiwanese screen maker has decided not to invest a proposed $230 million, muddying the outlook for the Apple Inc supplier.
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The arrest of Ghosn, who spearheaded Nissan's turnaround two decades ago, and the list of charges against him have jolted the auto industry, while muddying the outlook for Nissan's three-way alliance with Mitsubishi and France's Renault SA (RENA.PA).
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Further muddying the company's identity, from the Netflix point of view, would be the fact that Apple users who spooled up "Stranger Things" or "Orange Is the New Black" may not be aware that they're watching a Netflix show.
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Muddying matters a little more, Microsoft is literally positioning Windows 10 S in between the Home and Pro versions of Windows, both of which can run apps from outside the Store, which to many people would make them the superior choice.
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Ditto for ZTE, whose own big unveiling, the simply named Gigabit Phone was more proof of concept than anything else, happy muddying the waters in the lead up to 5G with its confusing and difficult to pronounce "5uper Generation" tagline.
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British ministers have rallied round Johnson but one of his allies, Environment Secretary Michael Gove, was accused of muddying the waters in a television interview on Sunday when he said he did not know what Zaghari-Ratcliffe was doing in Iran.
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Muddying the outlook for the region, Italy's government is in a stand-off with the European Commission over its borrowing and longstanding German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said she would not be seeking re-election as head of her party.
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Why it matters: The rise of consumer knowledge and price-checking is muddying the Fed's clarity on how much and how fast to implement interest rate hikes, as it restricts retailers' ability to charge different prices online and in stores.
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Conflicting leaks about what was in the emails and how close to indicting Clinton the FBI was cropped up in different outlets, muddying the waters and making a mockery of the bureau's general rules about not commenting on active investigations.
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Murphy was doing what he'd always done—lifting from his idols, ruminating on fame and love and loss, and muddying the line between cool and uncool until the distinction becomes invisible—but he was doing it bigger, more universally, and better.
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Our service members and their families cannot afford to wait for the resources they need to do their jobs, but by adding extraneous and controversial policies to must-pass spending legislation Republicans are muddying the waters and undermining our national security.
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In keeping with our belief that BDS is "a floor not the ceiling," we, along with allies from movements throughout the city, targeted Artis for its role in "muddying the waters" for those looking to support the Palestinian path toward liberation.
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Duterte has repeatedly threatened to tear up security deals with the United States, while also giving guarantees those would be honored, muddying the picture in a relationship that prior to his election was one of Washington's most crucial Asian alliances.
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Muddying the waters, the finale included Hadid's vague reference to how quickly things had changed in her life, and then a flashback to she and Foster together a few weeks before, seemingly happy, staring out over the water as the sun set.
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The California Republican, Free Telegraph, Verrit, and other sites like them might not be peddling misinformation, but by using Facebook as an accelerant for partisan, inherently biased political commentary and passing it off as "news" they are further muddying some already turbid waters.
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Trump that day also took a break from using his worst nickname ("Sleepy Eyes Chuck Todd," which is both imprecise and uncomfortably erotic) to signal boost a Fox News report about "unmasking," which has become his preferred method of muddying the Russia scandal.
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Western governments have been muddying the waters on migration for decades, pretending that the "guest workers" they had imported to ease labour shortages would return home; relying on armies of undocumented migrant workers; and making unrealistic promises about their ability to control borders.
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Further muddying the waters, there is also ongoing litigation in lower courts over recently unearthed evidence that the challengers have said reveals an illegal discriminatory motive by the administration for adding the question, which the high court could yet weigh in on.
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In addition to muddying the definition of harassment, the Senate legislation would allow lawmakers accused of harassment to avoid full financial responsibility by requiring that they reimburse the Treasury only for compensatory damages, rather than also for other damages; it's not clear why.
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But the broader mix of investments also risks "muddying the waters" for public market investors who are trying to understand Uber's business and how to properly value it, according to Kathleen Smith, principal at Renaissance Capital, which manages IPO-focused exchange-traded funds.
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Importantly, the guidelines form the basis for much federal, state and local food policy — like the school lunch program and congregate meals for older Americans — so the stakes are high for the food industry, which has much to gain from muddying the waters.
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In a segment on his Fox News show, Cavuto read aloud a series of social media reactions to his on-air commentary, in which he accused the president of "muddying the waters" of the controversy surrounding Daniels and her reported affair with Trump.
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Muddying the waters even more is the fact that some carriers and device makers are currently using RCS, but not the Universal Profile (which is being used by Chat), so their apps and services are not cross-compatible with those being used by other vendors.
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" Solomon said that "by providing unproven treatments to chronically ill or injured patients," these clinics are not only taking advantage of patients, they are "muddying the scientific waters of clinical trials that are trying to show whether a treatment does or does not work.
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Maggy is a fortune-telling witch who appeared in the very first episode of that season, in a flashback: A much younger Cersei and one of her friends from Casterly Rock were out in the woods, muddying up their dresses in search of a witch.
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But now the White House is muddying the waters by pursuing abortion restrictions — always a nonstarter for Democrats — and trying to formalize its proposal to expand short-term plans that don't comply with Obamacare, when Democrats have said they want to do the exact opposite.
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Granted, it is damn near impossible to pin down precise statistics on false rape reports, because law enforcement officers often miscategorize unsubstantiated reports as false; because water-muddying substances like alcohol were involved; because the police officers assigned to the case might happen to believe rape myths.
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There was also some pretty similar drama earlier this year, when a study declared eating red meat to be probably fine; it turned out the lead researcher on the study failed to disclose former food industry ties, muddying the ethics of an already muddy piece of science.
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President Donald Trump is growing increasingly irritated with lawyer Rudy Giuliani's frequently off-message media blitz, which has included muddying the waters on hush money paid to porn actress Stormy Daniels and making claims that could complicate the president's standing in the special counsel's Russia probe.
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My trial was hard because there was so much of Kleiner PR kind of muddying the facts and the events portrayed in the press, so it was hard to parse through all of that noise, but one very clear example was I had a performance review.
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While there is no evidence of wrongdoing on behalf of Joe or Hunter Biden, Trump's team is eager to press on with its own investigations and will be muddying the waters where they can in hopes of turning the issue into an anchor on his campaign.
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Even with the onslaught of all this negative Corbyn press, however, Johnson keeps muddying the message and getting in the way; a disastrous visit to flood victims in the north, a dreadful interview with the BBC, the annoying and unhappy girlfriend, the list goes on (and on).
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If Nunes and his allies have been successful at anything here, it is in further muddying the public's view of the ongoing special counsel investigation, and, perhaps in the eyes of the White House, carving out a little more space for a move to end it.
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Twitter abuse was a grand-scale normalisation project, disseminating libel and disinformation, muddying long-held cultural givens such as "racism is bad" and "sexual assault is bad" and "lying is bad" and "authoritarianism is bad," and ultimately greasing the wheels for Donald Trump's ascendance to the US presidency.
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"It is important to note that while Llanocetus is one of the oldest mysticetes [whales], it is not the most primitive, and that a tooth-filtering stage appears to have preceded Llanocetus, further muddying the waters by suggesting that filter feeding was primitive for toothed baleen whales," Boessenecker told Gizmodo.
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The RNC isn't going to try to seriously convince anyone that Democrats' complaints about his handling of Hillary Clinton's emails is their beef with Comey, but they are hoping that they can persuade the press they care in hopes of muddying the waters — ideally generating some infighting on the left.
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European parliament votes for controversial copyright reform (yes, again) In Europe, meme culture is under attack by lawmakers who have passed legislation muddying the waters around what constitutes fair use — and YouTube's users are worried that the company may start restricting the distribution of their videos on flimsy copyright claims.
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Sometimes, causes like free speech and LGBT rights are derided as being part of a Western hegemony, but this is just muddying the rhetorical waters: Foreign powers do not need to manipulate people into wanting to be able to walk down the street without harassment and speak without being killed.
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But at times the pope also conflated fake news, which is politically or economically motivated disinformation, with an incremental and sensational style of journalism he dislikes — a muddying of the waters that many democracy advocates have worried is corrosive to a free press and to the ideal of an informed populace.
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Republicans across the Capitol have resorted to attacking the firsthand knowledge of witnesses, muddying the waters with calls to name the whistleblower and even seeking to discredit the Trump administration's ability to be organized enough to execute a scheme to use military aid in order to advance its own political agenda.
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So, GOP leaders and well-funded interest groups are ignoring data and, instead, muddying the water with arbitrary anecdotes about higher after-tax wages, and lobbing insults at anyone who dares point out the disparity between the tax haul for the rich and comparatively meager tax cuts for working people.
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Such knowledge makes it much harder to be willing to be the one who signs the letter firing the special counsel, who despite all the partisan political muddying of the waters is a legend inside "Main Justice" and seen by effectively everyone outside of the GOP fever swamp as an apolitical straight arrow.
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But not the post-Thatcher causes of it, notably the muddying by later governments of her clear-water Right to Buy policies; and the Blair era and beyond of soaring house prices inflicted by shortage of supply, quantitative easing supercharging of all asset prices, and the unmoderated lure of Britain's south-east.
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From 1950 until 1975, however, there was a midcentury decrease in drought and a muddying of the signal that the scientists suggest was caused by aerosol emissions of pollutants like oxides of sulfur that contribute to smog, and could block some of the sun's light from reaching Earth and affect weather patterns.
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C.), as a partisan distraction aimed at muddying the waters around special counsel Robert MuellerRobert (Bob) Swan MuellerTrump calls for probe of Obama book deal Democrats express private disappointment with Mueller testimony Kellyanne Conway: 'I'd like to know' if Mueller read his own report MORE's investigation into President Trump's campaign and Russia.
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Muddying the waters, conservative pundits like William Kristol started entertaining fantasies of some mysterious new champion emerging, a daydream that sometimes took the form of Mitt Romney but then devolved into ever more obscure figures, like National Review writer David French, until finally settling on the quixotic campaign of former CIA operative Evan McMullin.
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And while Facebook, Twitter and Google are clearly not the only companies in the industry that could be accused of muddying their terms with opaque language, swingeing vagueness and impenetrable layers of complexity, the huge and growing societal power of social media platforms — and these three giants specifically — is bringing them into contact with regulators' spotlights, more and more.
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Much of the rhetorical purpose of The Bell Curve seems to be devoted to muddying the waters between the claim that there are limits to how much reasonable policy interventions can do to equalize everyone's abilities and social outcomes, and the claim that there is virtually nothing useful we can do with activist policy to help people.
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Factory output growth weakened to a two-year low in a worrying sign for investment and exporters amid a trade war with the U.S. Muddying the picture, new home prices enjoyed their fastest growth in almost two years in June, presenting a challenge for Chinese policymakers seeking to contain risks in a relatively strong part of the economy.
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Labelling bots is not discussed in the report — presumably because Facebook prefers to focus attention on self-defined spam-removal metrics vs muddying the water with discussion of how much suspect activity it continues to host on its platform, either through incompetence, lack of resources or because it's politically expedient for its business to do so.
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Yes, Russian bots and conspiracy-theorist crackpots and other nefarious actors have played a role in systematically spreading fake news, but much of the false or misleading information that is now muddying discourse and sustaining the tribal divide is spread unknowingly—innocently, in a sense—by people on both sides of the divide who are acting in accordance with human nature.
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While all of these investigations and revelations aren't created equal -- the appointment of a special counsel is a far bigger deal than, say, a Republican-led congressional investigation into whether or not the FBI put a finger on the scale for Clinton in 2016 -- the complexity of the various allegations (and counter allegations) allow for a significant muddying of the waters.
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Democrats have described both the Nunes memo and the unmasking controversy as politically manufactured scandals aimed at muddying the waters around special counsel Robert MuellerRobert (Bob) Swan MuellerTrump calls for probe of Obama book deal Democrats express private disappointment with Mueller testimony Kellyanne Conway: 'I'd like to know' if Mueller read his own report MORE's investigation into Trump campaign associates' ties to Russia.
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And it would damage Scotland's own interests: first by muddying the Brexit talks, in which Scotland has a stake, whether it ends up as part of Britain or not; and second by forcing Scots to vote before it is clear what sort of deal Britain is going to get with the EU. Whenever the second referendum campaign begins, Brexit will make life trickier for the unionist side.
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For weeks, the accusation has lingered, muddying public discussions and giving a long-running political spat new bite: Mayor Bill de Blasio, whose fund-raising on behalf of Democratic candidates for the State Senate in 2014 is under investigation by state and federal authorities, has pointedly hinted that he believes that details of the inquiry were leaked to the press in the latest of many attempts by Gov.
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Whether it's sharing his "hunch" that the coronavirus death rate is lower than 3.4%, saying that the United States had contained the spread of the virus from China back in February, claiming that cases are going down, muddying the waters on vaccine development and more, the President is a walking, talking, tweeting disaster when it comes to the communications strategy required during a complex crisis like this one.
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That suggests that the press as a whole has not done a good job of actually conveying factual information to our audience, that Democrats' messaging on the investigation has not been clear enough on the most damning point (Trump, even if otherwise innocent, is guilty of hiring crooks and trying to prevent an investigation into their activity), and that Trump's counterstrategy of muddying the waters around the investigation has been fairly successful.
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The exhibition at Whitechapel — for once a well-balanced and tidy show with some blank spaces on the walls to rest the eyes — displays Ruff's long-time engagement with the primary genres of photography, from photo-journalism (Newspaper Photographs, 22018-91; jpeg, 2004-8; press++, 2016-) to portraiture (Portraits, 1981-91), going through pornography (Nudes, 213-2012) and interior photography (Interiors,1979-83), muddying the waters of our perception in every image, manipulating each of them one way or another.
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" Samantha Vinograd pointed out that the US had three months to get ready for the crisis: "Whether it's sharing his 'hunch' that the coronavirus death rate is lower than 3.4%, saying that the United States had contained the spread of the virus from China back in February, claiming that cases are going down, muddying the waters on vaccine development and more, the President is a walking, talking, tweeting disaster when it comes to the communications strategy required during a complex crisis like this one.
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Three days after a gang of six men in police uniforms and balaclavas stormed the Regency Hotel in Dublin and shot up the weigh-ins for a boxing match scheduled to take place the next night, killing one man and critically injuring two others, a splinter faction of the Irish Republican Army paramilitary group has claimed credit for the ambush, further muddying the waters of a case that has so far stumped a stunned and undermanned Dublin police department and showing once again how deep and tangled run the ties between boxing and the criminal underworld in Ireland.
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Democrats have called the Goodlatte-Gowdy probe a partisan distraction aimed at muddying the waters around special counsel Robert MuellerRobert (Bob) Swan MuellerTrump calls for probe of Obama book deal Democrats express private disappointment with Mueller testimony Kellyanne Conway: 'I'd like to know' if Mueller read his own report MORE's investigation into President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE's campaign and Russia.
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