>attribute words to someone that they did not use, especially when presented as a quote. Misuse of technology can have tragic conse It's called a paraphrase. I

>attribute words to someone that they did not use, especially when presented as a quote. Misuse of technology can have tragic conse It's called a paraphrase. It's not a journalist secretly fabricating a quote to leak ahead of an election, it's a comment section where the context is visible and the paraphrase functions to restate an element of the argument that merits special attention. I've never before seen people get confused about this idea except on hn.