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@RadicalRuss @maxkennerly
If a reporter’s writing…

1. creates in readers an understanding that is factually incorrect (“Most Americans favor the anti-trans stance of the GOP” ← poll shows the opposite!), but

2. it is possible to consider the writing correct via some non-obvious technicality and close parsing (“looking only at poll questions that exactly match actual GOP •bills• introduced, not just •rhetoric•”)

…then the statement is a lie.

Lying via technicality is still lying.