Fabricating Facts

Facts are merely information based on real occurrences, which a far cry from truth or provability.

In the pursuit of truth you even have gradation of provability.

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The news media has the capability of reporting facts. The point being facts can be easily manipulated to suit anyone needs these days.

In fact, the mere fact of my posting on facts, is a fact in and of itself. See how easy it was to fabricate a fact.

See definition 2c here: bartleby.com/61/63/F0006300.html

And from the AHD4 usage note:
Fact has a long history of usage in the sense