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He accused the show’s producers of “negligence, knowledge of falsity, and/or a reckless disregard for the truth.”

The way you couched the statement that wasn’t true would indicate the seriousness of its falsity.

Mencken warned us nearly a century ago about “chain-store” methods of journalism and the “eager swallowing” of propaganda done by journalists “in the face of the plainest evidence of its falsity.”

The bar argued that Eastman knew or “was willfully blind” to the falsity of the numbers he peddled, and relied on an affidavit from a CPA with no expertise in statistics or elections.

Citing Abdul’s “positive feelings” toward Lythgoe, the attorneys included copies of “adoring messages and comments” made in text messages and social media posts that “underscore the frivolousness and falsity of her suit.”