Misquoted

Tom claims he was misquoted.

Silence can be misinterpreted, but never misquoted.

Vladimir Putin said he had not been misquoted but mistranslated when he had characterized an American presidential nominee as “flamboyant.” A British newspaper had incorrectly translated that word as “brilliant”, and that report misled the candidate into assuming the Russian president had meant brilliant in an intellectual sense — a mistake the paper later corrected.

I've been misquoted.

I was misquoted.

Mary claims she was misquoted.

He claims he was misquoted.

She claims she was misquoted.

They claim they were misquoted.

The speech has been misquoted so often that it's become — I can't think of any other way to say this — an alternative fact.