The Bottomless Pinocchio

Just this month, the newspaper’s Fact Checker was forced to create a new category of lying just for the Trump era: the ‘Bottomless Pinocchio’ for ‘when a politician refuses to drop a claim that has been fact checked as three or four Pinocchios, keeps saying it over and over and over again, so that it basically becomes disinformation, propaganda.’

It is so much worse than I thought by Charles M. Blow, New York Times, 19 December 2018

“The street finds its own uses for things.”

— William Gibson, as quoted in Our Hackable Political Future by Henry J. Farrell and Rick Perlstein, 4 February 2018