"Mendacious"?

"Mendacious updates to the @LDSChurchNews feed suggested Smith had fabricated translations of sacred texts" - er, Smith did fabricate those translations. To describe these updates as "mendacious" (i.e. "lying", from the Latin "mendax", as ne fule kno) is to assert that Smith literally did translate the Book of Mormon from some golden plates (teehee, "golden plates") handed to him by an angel in the forest. Either someone is trying too hard at the journalistic clever-clever prose style by using long words they don't understand, or The Reg is run by Mormons.