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The phrase "altered facts" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing information that has been changed or modified from its original state, often implying a distortion of the truth.
Example: "The article presented altered facts that misled the readers about the event."
Alternatives: "modified information" or "distorted truths".
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A new examination found, by comparing the reported diagnoses in the paper to hospital records, that Wakefield and colleagues altered facts about patients in their study.
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Diedrich Knickerbocker, the putative narrator, begins with a mock-pedantic cosmogony and proceeds to a history of New Netherlands, often ignoring or altering facts.
"I can't tell a lie even for art, apparently," Bishop wrote to him in 1962; "it takes an awful effort or a sudden jolt to make me alter facts".
This is a contract that should not be broken lightly and why I have disagreed with writers of memoir (in particular) who happily alter facts to suit their narrative purposes.
Such progress, they believe, will be possible only if Netanyahu curbs the settlements, which Palestinians and the larger Arab world see as part of an ongoing effort to alter "facts on the ground" to preclude a two-state solution.
Although a drawing reflects a cartoonist's judgment and point of view and the visual commentary often exaggerates circumstances, responsible editorial standards do not allow the artist to alter facts.
Yet today power and fortunes are gained precisely by altering facts and evidence.
They try to twist and alter facts so that we may not get a clear picture of reality.
It is exceptionally disappointing that the government abolished the Climate Commission, and doing so has not altered the facts of global warming or silenced the likes of Tim Flannery.
Nor has Mitt Romney's slow progress to the Republican nomination altered the fact that his fast-growing church is viewed by many with deep distrust.
None of that altered the fact that her wallet was apparently super-glued to her thigh.
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