What to Call a Lie Part 3

Words. Words. Words.

When we last left off on the question of what to call a Trump/Trump admin falsehood, NPR and the New York Times had staked out opposing positions, with the Times still pro using the word and NPR still anti.

Since then, The Atlantic’s Adrienne LaFrance took at look at how headlines from different publications handled Trump’s baseless and continuing accusations of voter fraud. (We were really self-conscious about what word to use just then.) The synonym salad included “unsubstantiated claim,” “false claim,” “wrongly blames,” “believes,” “continues to insist” “makes debunked claim,” “unconfirmed claims,” and so on.

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