Deceit is interested in the structure of a statement, not only whether each sentence is technically true.
Bring an example where the facts may be accurate, but the framing still narrows the reader’s choices, hides responsibility, or makes a preferred conclusion feel inevitable.
What is the statement doing? What would a false positive look like? What evidence would change your read?
Example:
A politician says: “Unemployment is at a 50-year low.” The statistic may be accurate. The framing may still be doing work: it narrows the listener’s attention to one metric, implies the current administration caused it, and makes the preferred conclusion feel inevitable. The labor force participation rate, the number of people working multiple jobs, and the real wage data are all excluded without being contradicted. The truth of the number is not the question. The question is what the number is being asked to carry.