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that depends on how you define "lying".

Is telling partial truth lying?

By combining multiple truth as one fabricated piece, is it lying?

Do you think the picture they used to present the chip is real? They certainly didn't claim the picture is for demonstration only, not the real thing.

> Is telling partial truth lying?

Are we in kindergarten? Off course it is lying.

Lying requires intent.

If I repeat a lie that I’m told, I’m merely being a dupe.

Consciously repeating a lie requires intent. Consciously telling half truth requires intent.

Indeed. There’s a really weird gray area too where someone should know that it’s a lie, but doesn’t fact check because it’s too comfortable.

So lets say Luke and I are troubleshooting a production issue. Luke and Chewbacca recently did some some work on the relevant parts of the code. I ask Luke: "Luke, this is really odd, didn't we ran the test suite and it passed without any problems?"

And Luke says "we did and and it passed" knowing full well that Chewbacca marked some tests with #[ignore] annotation and one of those ignored tests covers the exact functionality that is now failing in production.

I call telling partial truth intellectual dishonesty and for all practical purposes it is indistinguishable from lying.

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