There is nothing at all truthful about "alternative facts."

Bernays’ ideas of language use for propaganda live on to this day— ‘alternative facts,’ itself a more professional-sounding version of a phrase ghostwriter and journalist Tony Schwartz used in Donald Trump’s The Art of the Deal: ‘truthful hyperbole.’ A truthful hyperbole, according to Schwartz, is:
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There is nothing at all truthful about "alternative facts." That's what makes them "alternative." There are facts, and then there are "alternative facts" (aka lies).
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Full Stack developer at fintech company. I mainly write about React, Javascript, Typescript, and testing.
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