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The selective curation and presentation of data in a way that not only omits contrary evidence, but actively twists or misrepresents the chosen data points to force them to fit a predetermined narrative. It goes beyond cherry-picking into data-wrangling; it’s putting the facts on a rack to stretch them into the desired shape. Charts with manipulated axes, quotes taken grotesquely out of context, or statistics presented with misleading comparisons are all tools of the bending picker.
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