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facts and reporting on allegtions

"as has been shown a number of times recently where unsubstantiated rumour has been widely disseminated as facts "

Sorta. The power of weasel words allows you to lie in plain sight :)

So saying "David Cameron is alleged to like pork" sounds an awful lot like "Cameron porked a hog" but leaves you freedom to say "I was just saying that those fellas where just saying that..." and avoid getting sued.

So you can use the following phrases, and then follow them with whatever you want. It's been going on so long some people are hilariously crude with it:

- There are rumors of... ministerial competence

- Some people say... the F35 is a bargain at twice the price

- It is alleged that... bacon is a performance enhancing drug

- A senior government figure, under condition of anonymity, stated... you can't get pregnant when drunk

You can also use semi-rhetorical questions to state false prepositions, like "Given Trump's history of eating babies dipped in hot sauce* and the lack of evidence of voter fraud, is the commission into voter fraud just another attempt at voter suppression?" which again sound all sort of truthy and factoid shaped, but aren't.

* as anyone knows, the correct sauce is bechamel