In 2008, an Oklahoma City news station KOKH FOX 25 broadcast an in-depth report on PCG, which Flurry viewed as being "sensationalistic" and largely negative, claiming the church was the victim of an "ambush" and depicted inaccurately.

In 2005, residents of Pilsen (a neighborhood in Chicago, Illinois) criticized a passage in the book associated with the Latina-American doll Marisol, saying it inaccurately depicted their neighborhood as dangerous.

It was accepted as fact, depicted inaccurately by films, television, and novels.

The Turkish Brigade is featured in the infamous Unification Church-funded 1982 film Inchon, which inaccurately depicts the Turkish Brigade as being involved in the Battle of Inchon (in reality the Brigade did not arrive until the month after the battle).

In Amerika by Franz Kafka, the author inaccurately depicts the statue as holding aloft a sword rather than a torch.

Many illustrations of sauropods in the flesh miss these facts, inaccurately depicting sauropods with hooves capping the claw-less digits of the feet, and/or multiple claws or hooves on the hands.

Neil Jordan's film Michael Collins (1996) inaccurately depicts Broy (played by actor Stephen Rea) as having been discovered, tortured and killed by the British.

The novel ends with a newspaper article about the death of star athlete Chris "Grendel" Sellers, which inaccurately depicts him as a kind human being and overshadows the deaths of the other characters completely.

Such images inaccurately depict the Taliban as part of a different world from ours and obscure the role of the United States in creating these conditions.

It was written by Dennis Foon and directed by Don McBrearty, and was created in part because the earlier 1983 film The Terry Fox Story had been criticized by Fox's family for inaccurately depicting his personality.