| What is wrong and embarrassing is the President of the United States reciting a massively discredited factoid. |
| In this broader metaphorical sense, the word suggests a claim that is in the nature of folklore, factoid or urban legend. |
| When does a piece of data go from being a factoid to being a fact? |
| But why, you may ask, has this apparently trivial factoid ruffled the feathers of the good burghers of Oslo? |
| And by consumer and supplier agreement, no fact, factoid, or truthiness is too small to register. |
| This is a fairly well-known factoid in alternative news media. |
