Does it count as manspllaining when they tell you something wrong about something you have direct knowledge of, but don't BELIEVE you when you correct them?
I had the sad task of being the PR person running point on a high profile suicide of a colleague. This included attending the inquest. The Metro and Daily Mail and similar were, of course, all over it and wrote lengthy stories about the inquest, many of which were largely complete fabrications (papers like The Telegraph etc ALSo reported things, but more accurately). I was widely quoted as the organisation's spokesperson.
One of the stories that the red tops were teling that was completely untrue was that my colleague's mother had to be escorted from the building when she broke down while testifying - which was 100% not true.
I lost count of the number of people who talked me through the terrible situation, in particular who were deeply sympathetic to the mother being unable to complete her testimony and who literally did not believe me when I said that she was very upset, understandably, but that she had not, in fact, given any sort of testimony or witness statement at the inquest or been escorted out. It was bizarre.
What was saddest for me, is that I felt the truth - that she had sat there stoicly, crying at intervals and had left the room at one point, yes - was actually far more impactful. I spoke to both her and her husband (well, she didn't say much, but was there and I'd spoken to her husband on the phone a few times) and they came across as nothing but loving, kind people who were completely bewildered by what had happened to their son and the interest people were showing in the story.