But they make a basic effort at being, as Stephen Colbert put it, truthy.
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The word generated the adjective "truthy," which is also an official entry in the OED.
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VICE: What were you looking for when you started Truthy, and what did you find?
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Not only does Ngo not believe in supplementation, he's highly critical of anything remotely truthy. Keto?
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Before we get into the truthy stuff, however, let's have a look at some of those Trump tweets.
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There's no mystery surrounding how "I Am the Night," TNT's new truthy-crime mini-series, came to be.
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A little imagination can apparently make a lie feel "truthy" enough to give the liar a bit of a pass.
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Given those truthy maxims, let's examine the socioeconomics of the "City by the Bay" as a harbinger of what's to come.
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Novelists have been especially adroit lately at upending conventional narratives, perhaps because they're inspired by the truthy hellscape we're living in.
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"Truthy" articles are far more dangerous than obviously ridiculous articles, like those claiming Bill Cosby was selected as Trump's secretary of women's issues.
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These are general things we wanted to address with Truthy about how social media affects the spread of information, and also the spread of misinformation.
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Clinton was clearly the candidate whose policy claims, as a whole, had the best empirical support, so her surrender to truthy proclamations about trade was especially galling.
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If you read through it, though, it sounds true, or at least, "truthy," because it is written in a style that abides by the conventions of news writing.
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In the meantime, we got on the phone with Menczer to learn more about the Truthy Project and discuss whether memes could actually change the outcome of this year's election.
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Truthy is spearheaded by informatics and computer science professors Alessandro Flammini and Filippo Menczer, who is also the Director of the Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research at Indiana University.
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In other investigations, relevant figures don't get a cheat sheet of the questions to be asked; they do not have the luxury of crafting responses in advance that may be truthy, but dishonest.
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In American politics in 211993, the talk is instead truthy talk about the villainy of NAFTA in 211995, the offense of China joining the WTO in 211, and the theoretical disaster of TPP.
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In its insistent representation of what Greenblatt wanted the past to be like, instead of what the evidence suggests, it exemplifies that dire trend of "truthy" nonfiction books that present One Theory to Explain Everything.
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Also somewhat ominous is German photographer Sonja Braas's "Forces #73" (2003), which subtly mixes a picture taken in real conditions from an unexpected viewpoint (making it difficult to apprehend scale) with "truthy" illusionist models, also by the artist.
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A politician who would repeatedly suggest that Ted Cruz's father was involved in JFK's assassination based on a grainy photograph in the National Enquirer is not a politician who is even attempting to abide by the norms of truthy discourse.
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In 2014, researchers at Indiana University received several grants, including close to a million dollars from the National Science Foundation, to start the Truthy Project, which is dedicated to studying the spread of information through socio-technical information networks and analyzing how and why things go viral.
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It has sold over 29,000,000 copies in paperback and hardcover combinedMaul, Kimberly. Colbert to Get Truthy in Real Book with Fake News. The Book Standard, March 21, 2006. and has also been published by Highbridge Audio as an unabridged audiobook with voice performances by Sedaris, Dinello, and Colbert.
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In some programming languages, any expression can be evaluated in a context that expects a Boolean data type. Typically (though this varies by programming language) expressions like the number zero, the empty string, empty lists, and null evaluate to false, and strings with content (like "abc"), other numbers, and objects evaluate to true. Sometimes these classes of expressions are called "truthy" and "falsy" / "falsey".
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'Except,' he said, 'people got hurt this time.'" On January 14, Clark herself responded in an article titled "Exclusive 'News' – I'm dead to Stephen Colbert". She furthered the rise of "truthiness" in published English in conceding, "Truthiness be told, I never had seen The Colbert Report until my name graced its 'Dead to Me' board this week... But I will say that I watched Colbert's show for the first time... It was funny. And that's not just truthy.
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The Associated Press reported on the American Dialect Society's selection of truthiness as the Word of the Year, including the following comments by one of the voting linguists: > Michael Adams, a professor at North Carolina State University who > specializes in lexicology, said "truthiness" means "truthy, not facty". "The > national argument right now is, one, 'Who's got the truth?' and, two, 'Who's > got the facts? he said. "Until we can manage to get the two of them back > together again, we're not going to make much progress.
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For example, in Colbert's "Operation Iraqi Stephen: Going Commando" the word "Veritasiness" can be seen on the banner above the eagle on the operation's seal. Truthiness was named Word of the Year for 2005 by the American Dialect Society and for 2006 by Merriam-Webster. Linguist and OED consultant Benjamin Zimmer pointed out that the word truthiness already had a history in literature and appears in the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), as a derivation of truthy, and The Century Dictionary, both of which indicate it as rare or dialectal, and to be defined more straightforwardly as "truthfulness, faithfulness". Responding to claims by Michael Adams that the word already existed with a different meaning, Colbert said: "Truthiness is a word I pulled right out of my keister".
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On January 13, the first day after the four-day run of criticism of the AP on the Report, the AP ran a story about The Colbert Report being upset about being snubbed by the AP, in an article titled "Colbert: AP the biggest threat to America". As he has in the past, Colbert remained in character in an interview for the story, and used it to further the political satire of truthiness; excerpts of the story are: > "When an AP story about the designation sent coast to coast failed to > mention Colbert, he began a tongue-in-cheek crusade, not unlike the kind his > muse Bill O'Reilly might lead in all seriousness." It's a sin of > omission...' Stephen Colbert told the AP on Thursday...' It's like > Shakespeare still being alive and not asking him what Hamlet is about,' he > said." "The Oxford English Dictionary has a definition for 'truthy' dating > back to the 1800s...' The fact that they looked it up in a book just shows > they don't get the idea of truthiness at all,' Stephen Colbert said > Thursday.
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