"misfact" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2003, Jay S Hosler, Sandwalk Adventures, page 148:",
          "text": "These transformations often occur because the \"treatment\" has unlocked the genetic or evolutionary \"potential\" being bottled up by our own inadequacies as humans — social commentary and science misfact in one big melange.",
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          "ref": "2011, Roger Chiang, Travails To Truth: My Peace From Prison, page 8:",
          "text": "All summer long, I was busy battling the assistant chief who continued to cry the criminally libelous misfact.",
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        "(countable) A wrong or untrue piece of information."
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          "ref": "1969, Film Society Review, volume 5, page 13:",
          "text": "It is most unfortunate that FILM SOCIETY REVIEW chose to print an article about the Fourth National Student Film Festival filled with statements of misfact which raised so many questions concerning the objectives of the Festival's sponsor, […]",
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        "(uncountable) Misinformation."
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          "ref": "2003, Jay S Hosler, Sandwalk Adventures, page 148:",
          "text": "These transformations often occur because the \"treatment\" has unlocked the genetic or evolutionary \"potential\" being bottled up by our own inadequacies as humans — social commentary and science misfact in one big melange.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Roger Chiang, Travails To Truth: My Peace From Prison, page 8:",
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        "(countable) A wrong or untrue piece of information."
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        "(uncountable) Misinformation."
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