falsehood

Writing in The Times, Beard bemoaned that the poem's "erotic puzzles, the teasing ironies, the intriguing questions about truth and falsehood" had been replaced with "a rather ponderous Hollywood message about civilisational decline".

From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026

Rather than respond to every claim, Logan says his office picks its battles, intervening only when a falsehood appears likely to reach a wide audience.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026

At the very least, the definition of lying must include speaking with the aim of causing one’s audience to adopt a falsehood.

From Salon ● Apr. 13, 2026

In a joint statement with local government officials on Monday, Kaduna state police commissioner Alhaji Muhammad Rabiu described the information as "mere falsehood which is being peddled by conflict entrepreneurs who want to cause chaos".

From BBC ● Jan. 20, 2026

‘Do you mean that he is dead, and that you knew it? You have been trying to trap me in words, playing with me? Or are you now trying to snare me with a falsehood?’

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

The falsehoods -- circulating across tech platforms including X, TikTok and Facebook -- have also added fresh fuel to a longstanding conspiracy theory that NASA's 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing was faked.

From Barron's ● Apr. 11, 2026

This has allowed purveyors of falsehoods to build audiences on social media and podcasts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 18, 2026

Some law enforcement experts believe the repeated falsehoods are harming federal authorities both in the public eye and in the courtroom.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 31, 2026

After MI5 apologised, we then showed that inquiries into what happened by MI5 and the government were deficient and unreliable, with further falsehoods provided to the court.

From BBC ● Jan. 25, 2026

The chief mate leaned in, examining her with his dead gray eyes, scanning for falsehoods the way he’d scan the Current for leaks.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee