Initial reports that he died after eating a barbecued marmot are believed to be false.
But if the meaning was that the intelligence was "embellished" with items "known or believed to be false or unreliable," then Lord Hutton said, "I consider that the allegation was unfounded".
Even so, countries like Germany can only blame themselves for not insisting on realistic European oversight of Greek statistics, which were widely believed to be false for two decades.
Kelly's attempts at explaining his role, according to some aides, have included telling senior staff members last Friday to communicate a version of events many believed to be false, as well as telling at least one confidant that he has "a good bulls detector" and had long detected troubling characteristics in Porter.
"The uncontroverted evidence at trial was that after receiving a demand to stop posting what plaintiffs believed to be false and defamatory materials on several Web sites, including allegations that Mr. Padrick had committed tax fraud, defendant offered 'PR,'searchch engine management,' and online reputation repair services to Obsidian Finance, for a price of $2,500 per month".
The next day, The Examiner reprinted a Philadelphia newspaper article that reported Lee's defeat, then added a parenthesis: "(It is well known in Richmond that this is a Yankee lie)." Neither paper explained why it would reprint stories it believed to be false.
After all, one of the more disturbing aspects of the decline effect is that many results we now believe to be false have been replicated numerous times.
I myself have used it to describe what I believe to be false accusations against the state of Israel by the Goldstone report.
"This shows that fake reviews are a legitimate target of law enforcement," said Aaron Schur, senior litigation counsel for Yelp, which has taken an aggressive approach in screening out reviews it believes to be false.
However, she added: "An overwhelmingly large number of students, including a number of Jewish students, have expressed their distress and frustration over what they believe to be false accusations and the manner in which these accusations have been made.
