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Facts and advertisements are like apples and oranges. The notion of "plain text listing of fact" is pretty vague, though I'd personally classify none of those above statements as "plain text listing of facts", and all of them could be advertisements in the right context.

An advertisement is a communication designed to manipulate its recipient. Whether it's "true" or not is neither here nor there. In fact, a lot of advertisements are complete non-sequiturs, because those kinds of statements are less likely to make the listeners/viewers think critically about the statements.



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