yeah that’s my beef too. saying “they won’t report this” when they did is lying. its a common automatic lie but still a lie.
it’s like that friend that exaggerates numbers all the time – days become months and years, money figures grow and shrink depending on how dramatic they feel – and one have to ignore so much of those things when they tell a story because you know they’re going to wildly exaggerate
 but this is in the did/didn’t do category which is beyond exaggerating