fakery
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“If there’s any whiff of fakery or performance or inauthenticity, my lovely wife will let me know about it,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 22, 2026
Celebrity gossip keeps a close eye on body fakery.
From Slate • Jul. 21, 2025
District Judge John A. Mendez illustrates the tension between efforts to protect against AI-powered fakery that could sway elections and the strong safeguards in the Bill of Rights for political speech.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 3, 2024
The world of misinformation is awash with fakery and doubt.
From BBC • Mar. 12, 2024
They were brittle and peeling—smaller than I remembered, too—and looking at them now, as an almost adult, it struck me how blatant the fakery was.
From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs
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