The Dictionary Trolls Kellyanne Conway By Tweeting Out The Definition Of Fact

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By Sarah Jones on Sun, Jan 22nd, 2017 at 2:56 pm

"A fact is a piece of information presented as having objective reality," Merriam-Webster Dictionary tweeted after Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway tried to rebrand the Trump administration's false statements as "alternative facts."



“A fact is a piece of information presented as having objective reality,” Merriam-Webster Dictionary tweeted after Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway tried to rebrand Trump administration’s false statements (aka, lies) as “alternative facts” on NBC’s Meet the Press.

“Fact (“a piece of information presented as having objective reality”) spiked dramatically on January 22nd, following an exchange between Chuck Todd and Kellyanne Conway on NBC’s Meet the Press that was fraught with epistemological tension,” the Dictionary explained.

“In contemporary use, fact is generally understood to refer to something with actual existence, or presented as having objective reality.”

The exchange the dictionary is referring to went as follows:

Todd: You did not answer the question of why the President asked the White House Press Secretary to come out in front of the podium for the first time and utter a falsehood. Why did he do that? It undermines the credibility of the entire White House Press Office on day one.


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