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I agree that the language used wasn’t perfect, but… If a claim is not verifiable, it can only be taken on faith. Same as all the existing apps in the category that this one aims to replace. Is there a better word we can use to describe this sort of situation?

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I can’t think of one specific word to swap out for “falsehood,” it would be better to just replace the whole phrase. Various things have been bounced around here in the discussion. I’d go with something like “without the source code, unfortunately that can’t be verified.” This is a better phrase all around. It describes the actual problem. And it isn’t unnecessarily accusatory.

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