His lawyer said: "As set forth in the complaint that we have filed on behalf of Dr. Luke, Kesha and her mother are engaged in a campaign of publishing outrageous and untrue statements about Dr. Luke to third parties, including scurrilous and false statements of purported physical and mental abuse of Kesha.
The Democratic presidential nominee warned that the proliferation of false news stories online can have "real world consequences", alluding to an incident over the weekend in which a man opened fire at Comet Ping Pong after reading a false news story that purported the DC pizzeria was harboring children as part of a sex ring led by Clinton.
Since the 1990s, Chinese leaders and politicians have consciously been spreading false historic evidence about purported ancient Chinese possessions in the disputed waters, not only to rally domestic support for China's maritime expansion, but also to justify the seizure of territories occupied by other neighboring states.
While RNA-Seq has been successfully applied to detect QTL-associated SNPs in salmonids [ 30], the technique is purported to be particularly susceptible to false positive SNP discovery even in species with well-characterised reference genomes (e.g.[ 34]).
"The rash of recent reports about purported ICE checkpoints and random sweeps are false, dangerous, and irresponsible," the agency wrote in a statement about detentions in the Los Angeles area.
After a five-day "targeted enforcement action" that saw 160 people rounded up across the Los Angeles area in February, for example, ICE said in a statement that "the rash of recent reports about purported ICE checkpoints and random sweeps are false, dangerous, and irresponsible".
Enter Ben Spielberg, who, purporting to "debunk" the "false family structure narrative," instead debunks his own false construction of the Moynihan Report: the demonstrably inaccurate claim that Daniel Patrick Moynihan "insist[ed] that family structure and Black '[p]athology' are primary drivers of poverty and inequality".
Some conservatives started trumpeting the efforts of polling aggregators like UnSkewedPolls.com, which purported to "debunk the media bias and shatter the false illusion being created by the mainstream media".
At another point Mr. Harris noted that he had used the @destructuremal account in September to deliberately spread a false rumor that Radiohead was planning to perform at Zuccotti Park, even manufacturing a fake e-mail message that purported to be from one of the band's managers.
