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mudds [2019/03/09 03:06] – [AxaMonitor's New Fact-Checking System] Carlos Pedrazamudds [2024/04/14 20:23] (current) – [Introduction] revised to eliminate redundant wording Carlos Pedraza
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- +Like the Post's "Pinnochios," **AxaMonitor** will use its own Trek character, an infamous adversary known for his only occasional relationship with the truth.
-Like the Post's "Pinnochios," **AxaMonitor** will use its own Trek character, a well-known adversary known for his only occasional relationship with the truth.+
  
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-{{::mudd.png?nolink |}}{{::mudd.png?nolink |}} <fs large>**Two Mudds**</fs> \\ Significant omissions and/or exaggerations. Some factual error may be involved but not necessarily. Someone can create a false, misleading impression by playing with words and using legalistic language that means little to ordinary people. (Think of it as “half true.”)+{{::mudd.png?nolink |}}{{::mudd.png?nolink |}} <fs large>**Two Mudds**</fs> Significant omissions and/or exaggerations. Some factual error may be involved but not necessarily. Someone can create a false, misleading impression by playing with words and using legalistic language that means little to ordinary people. (Think of it as “half true.”)
  
-{{::mudd.png?nolink |}}{{::mudd.png?nolink |}}{{::mudd.png?nolink |}} <fs large>**Three Mudds**</fs> \\ Significant factual error and/or obvious contradictions — “mostly false.” This could include statements that are technically correct (based on some kind of data source) but taken so much out of context as to significantly mislead. The line between Two Muds and Three Mudds can be bit fuzzy, so we'll try to what tips us toward a Three.+{{::mudd.png?nolink |}}{{::mudd.png?nolink |}}{{::mudd.png?nolink |}} <fs large>**Three Mudds**</fs> \\ Significant factual error and/or obvious contradictions — “mostly false.” This could include statements that are technically correct (based on some kind of data source) but taken so much out of context as to significantly mislead. The line between Two Mudds and Three Mudds can be bit fuzzy, so we'll try to explain what tips us toward a Three.
  
-{{::mudd.png?nolink |}}{{::mudd.png?nolink |}}{{::mudd.png?nolink |}}{{::mudd.png?nolink |}} <fs large>**Four Mudds**</fs> \\ //Whoppers//. Just. Wow. +{{::mudd.png?nolink |}}{{::mudd.png?nolink |}}{{::mudd.png?nolink |}}{{::mudd.png?nolink |}} <fs large>**Four Mudds**</fs> \\ //Whoppers//. Just. Wow. \\ 
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-{{::spock_truth_sm.png?nolink |}} <fs 24px>**Spock's Science Insignia**</fs> \\ Statements and claims that contain “the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth” will be recognized with our prized Spock Science Insignia. We tend to reserve this for claims that are unexpectedly true, so it is not awarded very often.+\\ 
 +{{:spock_truth_sm.png?nolink |}}<fs 18px>**Spock's Science Insignia**</fs> \\ 
 +Statements and claims that contain “the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth” will be recognized with our prized Spock Science Insignia. We tend to reserve this for claims that are unexpectedly true, so it is not awarded very often.
  
 {{:mudd_invert.png?bottom&nolink |}} <fs 24px>**Upside-Down Mudd**</fs>  \\ A statement that represents a clear but unacknowledged “flip-flop” from a previously-held position. {{:mudd_invert.png?bottom&nolink |}} <fs 24px>**Upside-Down Mudd**</fs>  \\ A statement that represents a clear but unacknowledged “flip-flop” from a previously-held position.