pseudo facts

When a politcal organization or it's supporters do faulty misleading reasearch and then present it to the public as a fact.
Nowadays Coporations who wish to discredit solid scientific reasearch that might hurt their profits will employ this tactic.
Pesudo facts involve Cherry-picking edvidence, and creating rigged experiments that can confuse or mislead people.

Corporations that see the recognition of Golbal Warming as a threat to their company's profits will employ pseudo facts to confus the public

by ????^_^???? October 28, 2006

Hardit fact

A fact said by an indian that is completely fabricated to make himself seem smart.

Indian: there are actually 51 states in the US.
Person: Eyo thats a hardit fact

by Wet Jenna Talia October 19, 2021

fact checking

Telling lies in order to prove you don't love Putin.

After some intense fact checking, it was determined that Russia ate the fact check site's homework.

by Objective-Reason Daddy March 14, 2022

alternative facts

Bullshit.

Grant was caught having sex with his wife's best friend. And there was smoking-gun proof: a sex-tape made by a private investigator hired to check up on him. But Kellyanne says she can get him off. She's gonna present his wife with some alternative facts.

by Dictionnaire Diabolique January 30, 2017

Fact check

Something nobody on Urban Dictionary thinks to do before posting a definition.

"London's definitely the richest city in the world."

In fact, Tokyo, New York, Chicago and Los Angeles all had a higher gross domestic product than London, according to 2008 statistics. A simple fact check could have informed you of this fallacy.

by AmysMan March 14, 2012

Wikipedia Fact

Fact about someone or something that seems a little strange to be real. From Wikipedia.org, a site where anyone can edit any article at any time.

Brett: Dude, did you hear that David Archuleta won an adult film award before he got on American Idol?

Nicole: Are you sure? That sounds like a Wikipedia Fact to me.

by Brett94 May 27, 2008

BuzzFeed facts

A false claim based on either pseudoscience and/or fallaciousness typically sourced from BuzzFeed

Person 1: did you know that whites cannot be victims of racism?
Person 2: that's BuzzFeed Facts.

by JustTellingTheTruthHere June 13, 2019