A weird little rabbit hole leads me to this: there seem to be a lot of people who imagine they can treat what other people say as a sort of modeling clay out of which they can fashion anything they like, and then attribute their own newly-form idea back to the original author. - Joseph MooreThis sounds a whole lot like what goes on in the media and in high level government "investigations".
P.S. I considered creating a new label to describe this: word-crime.
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