Misleading content can come in many forms, but this example from the New York Times demonstrates how visuals are also susceptible to charges of being misleading. When you look at the gavel that represents Obama (15 appellate judgeships confirmed) and compare that with Trumps’s (24), the ‘scale’ of the diagram is not aligned. CHAPTER 4 False context An illustration comparing presidential confirmations of appellate judgeships is misleading because the size of gavels are not to scale. President Trump’s gavel should be less than twice as big as President Obama’s. Source: How the Trump Administration Is Remaking the Courts, New York Times, August 22,2018. Archived Sept 6, 2019.12 Screenshot by author. 26 I N F O R M AT I O N D I S O R D E R When genuine content is shared with false contextual information. 27